Kasich signs $62B budget, leaves in anti-abortion provisions

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Kasich signs $62B budget, leaves in anti-abortion provisions
Governor vetoes language that would block him from Medicaid expansion


Gov. John Kasich tonight vetoed language attempting to block him from moving forward with Medicaid expansion, but did not touch any of the anti-abortion language before signing the new two-year, $62 billion state budget.

The budget takes effect Monday, the first day of the new fiscal year.

In all, Kasich vetoed 22 items, including some earmarks. However, Ohio State University’s STAR House, which helps homeless youth, kept its $665,000 per year in funding.

Significant abortion provisions in the budget were not changed. The bill essentially cuts off Planned Parenthood from about $1.4 million in federal family planning dollars by reprioritizing who can receive the money.

Under the bill, abortion clinics must have a transfer agreement with a hospital, but they are prohibited from signing one with a public hospital. The bill also requires a doctor to perform an external ultrasound prior to an abortion to search for a heartbeat, and if one is found, must inform the woman. The doctor also must tell the woman the likelihood of the fetus surviving to a full term, and it redefines a fetus as “developing from the moment of conception,” rather than when a fertilized egg has been implanted in the uterus.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/06/30/Governor-signs-$62billion-budget.html

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1. Right wingers love to hate women.

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2. Does he have a line-item veto? Or were those 22 things passed separate from the omnibus bill? (nt)

[The Straight Story]

3. Line item (nt)