The Senator of the Republican State Ohio has re -introduced the provisions regarding the granting of tax breaks for donations for the resources of anti -olical pregnancy resources.
Senator of State Sandra O’BrienR-ASHTABULA, this week introduced the Senate 40 Act in the Ways and Means Senate Commission The one she supported in the previous General AssemblyBut what hasn’t passed.
The bill would allow uneven income or tax relief for commercial activities for “donations for the Certified Non-Profit resource center in Ohio, which primarily serves Ohio residents and offers free or cheap resources and help in pregnancy”, in accordance with Commission for Legislative Service OHIO Account analysis.
Voters in Ohio adopted a constitutional amendment in 2023. Protection of reproductive rights with 57% support, including access to abortion care.
Pregnancy resource centers, also called Crisis pregnancy centersThese are objects that are not equipped with medical procedures outside ultrasonic services or pregnancy tests, and provide referrals and counseling to pregnant people, but the option manages guests from abortion.
“Because the pro-life movement justifies life, it is more important than ever to take specific steps to support women and families in the face of unexpected pregnancy,” O’Brien said during the sponsor’s testimonies about the bill. “Helping in maintaining and expanding the work, which local PRC already perform in their communities, only serves the communities in which they are involved.”
O’Brien praised the objects, saying that the need “is becoming bigger in Ohio.”
“Some mothers (who go to the centers) … They are between the stone and the difficult place, because they may question what they should do, and maybe their father or their families encourage them not to bring a child in the world, they are a bit confused and simply seek help ” – O’Brien told the committee.
Creating a tax relief for donations for centers indicates that the state “invests in a network providing high -quality health care for pregnant women,” she said.
The objects are often religiously related and although some mention abortion as one of the options for pregnant people who reach them, information on abortion services is Often medically refuted or falseand information aimed at discouraging people from the service of abortion services.
In fact, objects that can be part of the tax relief and those that receive money from the subsidy from the state are excluded from the “promotion” of abortion services or adviser on the option.
SB 40 states that donations must go to the “qualifying center of pregnancy resources”, defined as based on Ohio 501 (C) (3) non-profit, which serves the “main goal” of free or affordable assist, including pregnancy, In this pregnancy, tests, ultrasounds and other services “for pregnant women carrying pregnancy”.
The facility may not be a hospital home of care or housing care and cannot “perform, promote or arrange an organization that performs non -therapeutic abortions and is not associated with a person who performs or promotes non -therapeutic abortions.”
Pursuant to the Act, not therapeutic abortion is “one that is performed or induced when the mother’s life would not be threatened if the fetus was transferred to the deadline or when the mother’s pregnancy was not the result of rape or incest reported to and the law enforcement agency. “
While O’Brien advertised tax relief as a way to encourage companies and natural persons in Ohio to transfer donations to centers, people already transfer “as if there was no tomorrow,” she told the committee. In addition, the state is already directing funds to some objects, through grants distributed from the transient assist program for needy families (tanf).
IN Annual report published in May last year 118 subsidies with a total value of $ 13.5 million were issued by the Ohio Governor’s office based on faith and social initiatives, of which 41 were mentioned as “children’s initiatives”.
Money from the subsidy went to the New Life Center, Inc. Elizabeth, Health Centers in pregnancy and pregnancy Solutions & Services, Inc., all of which promote pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and advice under their services.
On the website for the decision -making health centers, “considering abortion” is a party, but it does not provide any information about procedures, instead, encouraging to plan the meeting and ultrasound as “a clearly way to determine how far you are, which will play an important role in your abortion options . “
New Life Center Inc. Elizabeth advertises “Afirming services”. Pregnancy Solutions, Inc., states “you can choose an abortion” and encourages you to “talk to your doctor about abortion facts, options and procedures” to “prepare you for a life decision.”
O’Brien did not give the names of specific centers, which she praised during the testimony of the committee, but said that the general philosophy of the centers is “they take every dollar, which they probably get and transfer him to pregnant girls.”
“This is a perfect example of issued for this purpose, instead of getting stuck in all kinds of administrative costs,” she said.
Pregnancy decision Health Centers were one of the facilities listed in the 2023 report ordered by the city of Columbus and made by abortion (formerly Pro-Choice Ohio) to analyze the centers in this area. In the report, researchers who visited and called Center to obtain information found that pregnancy decision health centers and others “often do not have medical staff on staff and provide very limited medical services, such as pre -prescription urine pregnancy tests.”
Budgets analysis by a report from 2023. The presented to you from some facilities showed that health centers “allocated only 5.65% of their budget for support and education of participants” from December 2021 to June 2022, and from July 2022 from July 2022 until June 2023, only 3.1% went to these specific areas. The report said that more than half of the budget had remuneration, benefits and travel of staff.
Tanf financing is also distributed to some centers under the parental program and pregnancy in Ohio, and by License plate “Choose life”. In the state budget 2024-2025, the parental program and pregnancy in Ohio received $ 13 million in two years to “promote childbirth, parenthood and alternatives to abortion.”
Entities qualify for financing via the program, if they are private, non-profit with the “main goal” to “promote childbirth, not abortion, through advice and other services, including parental and adoption support.”
The program also claims that objects cannot be “involved in any abortion or related activities, including in providing abortion advisory or referral to abortion clinics, performing medical procedures related to abortion or by engaging in pro -abortion advertising”, in accordance with the last budget on 2024-2025 document.
The latest executive proposal of Governor Mike Dwine continues Tanf funds for the Governor of the Bureau of Initiatives based on faith and community and the Fatherhood Commission. The proposal shows Tanf estimates in the amount of $ 16.6 million in the next two years for the Office of Initiatives based on Faith and the Commission. This proposal, along with the rest of his budget recommendations, is still being considered by the legislator Ohio.
Senator of State Dr. Beth Poston, D-Dublin, a member of the Ways and Means committee, mentioned Tanf funds when asking how the tax account would assist you low rankings in children’s welfare. She said that the cost for you in the amount of $ 10 million should be assured that the donations would go to centers with the possibility of making changes in mothers mortality or, for example, children’s results.
“If we looked at additional expenses of $ 10 million, I would certainly like to make sure that there are handrails, so that people received them in the direction of a better result for women and pregnant children,” said Lekon.
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