Planned Parenthood Targeted as Ohio Considers Grant Restrictions

Ohio lawmakers are considering a budget provision like one that caused five of six Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas to lose funding and, the group says, left poor women without access to preventive health care.

Republicans who control the Legislature amended a fast-moving budget bill last week to put Planned Parenthood at the end of the line to apply for federal dollars that Ohio distributes for contraceptives and other family-planning services. Public health departments and other providers would have priority.