The Toledo, Ohio, City Council is considering a resolution that would allow the city to use COVID-19 relief funds to pay for abortion travel — or as they describe it, “to relieve financial burdens related to receiving reproductive healthcare.”
The resolution, introduced by Council members Nick Komives, Theresa Gadus, and Michele Grim, would transfer $100,000 in COVID relief funds from the federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) to help women obtain abortions.
According to the White House, ARPA was meant to provide direct relief to Americans, contain COVID-19, and rescue the economy.” What does any of that have to do with abortion? Your guess is as good as mine.