Following the truly horrific 2015 revelations that Planned Parenthood was
harvesting baby parts and haggling over baby brains
for profit, Republican governors across the nation moved to ban taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. In February 2016, then-Ohio Governor John
Kasich signed into law a bill that restricted state funding to Planned Parenthood.
While a lower court had previously blocked the state from stripping $1.5 million in funding from
the nation's top abortion provider, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled Tuesday that Ohio can indeed defund Planned Parenthood.