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Statement on Lebanon, Ohio Ordinance from Kersha Deibel, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio

For Immediate Release: May 25, 2021 (Updated: May 25, 2021, 5:18 p.m.)


“Efforts to control Ohioan’s bodily autonomy are and will always be a threat to the health and safety of those living in our state. The ordinance in Lebanon is just another example of the extreme and unconstitutional lengths anti-abortion activists will go to prevent patients from seeking the care they need and deserve. These types of ordinances attempt to criminalize and defame abortion providers and/or prevent health centers that provide abortions from operating within their city limits and we will not stand for it.

Abortion services are already extremely difficult to access for people in Ohio, but these efforts are part of an aggressive, nationwide anti-abortion agenda to do one thing - ban abortion outright. It’s reprehensible. We will do everything we can to continue providing safe, legal abortion to the people in Ohio who need it – no matter what.”

- Kersha Deibel, President & CEO, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region

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