MANSFIELD — The nation’s leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, appears to be abandoning Ohio after a string of defeats leaving its operations crippled in the Buckeye State. Over the last nine years, the Ohio Legislature has enacted twenty-two pro-life initiatives, half of the state’s abortion facilities have closed, and the number of abortions in the state have fallen by over twenty-five percent.
This past September 20th, two Cincinnati-area Planned Parenthood clinics closed in Springdale and Western Hills. While neither location performed abortions, Cincinnati has only five Planned Parenthood centers remaining.
Reverend Clyde Kerby of Ministries of Hope and Healing has his congregation hold weekly prayer vigils at the Mansfield Planned Parenthood. Kerby weighed in on the developments.
“Last year our congregation joined ongoing efforts to be present onsite. GOD’s desire is for the lives of no babies to be taken. However, if there is no one to stand and speak up for these innocent children, the murdering will continue. The Bible says ‘Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual.’ GOD expects us to get involved.”
Kerby adds, “With the passage of the Heartbeat Law in the Spring and the abortion industry’s setbacks this summer, it won’t be long before the Mansfield Planned Parenthood closes its doors.”
“With the passage of the Heartbeat Law in the Spring and the abortion industry’s setbacks this summer, it won’t be long before the Mansfield Planned Parenthood closes its doors.”
Reverend Clyde Kerby, Hope & Deliverance Ministries
Overall in Ohio, it has been a summer to forget for Planned Parenthood.
On June 7th, Tia Parks walked into the largest abortion mill in the state: the Painesville Reproductive Health at Family Planning Association, to have her twin babies aborted. The following day Parks died of complications from the abortion. Both twins were aborted.
According to a press release by Cleveland Right to Life, Mitchell William Reider is the abortionist believed responsible for the abortion procedure. The autopsy report states that Parks died as a result of bleeding in the abdominal cavity from a ruptured Fallopian tube due to a heterotopic gestation.
In addition, on August 19th, Planned Parenthood announced it was pulling out of the Title X program due to the Trump administration’s prohibition of Title X family-planning funds going to clinics performing or referring abortions.
On September 18th Toledo’s last abortion mill, Capitol Care Network of Toledo, surrendered its ambulatory surgical facility license and will no longer perform surgical abortions.
Over the last several years, the non-profit Planned Parenthood has been criticized for providing abortion, for its exorbitant management salaries and its exclusive advocacy of the Democrat Party while receiving $500 million in taxpayer dollars annually. In many cases, that criticism has turned into activism.
In the meantime, the local pro-life movement will continue to double its efforts to see the statewide trend manifest itself in Mansfield.
A National Life Chain prayer demonstration will be taking place on Sunday, October 6th between 2:00-3:00 PM at the corner of Lexington Springmill Road and West Fourth Street in Ontario. Coordinator Greg Jevikar can be reached at 419.468.4679 for more details.
View the following video on Planned Parenthood produced by Alliance Defending Freedom.
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