Kasich's record in Ohio is terrifying if you're a woman. He's not one of the loud, Bible-thumping anti-choicers that people can get angry about; he's quiet and clever about it.

On his watch, the actual State Medical Board was stacked with anti-choicers, including members of Ohio Right to Life.

He rams clinic restrictions through by stuffing them into the state budget.

First, he required that clinics have "transfer agreements" with local hospitals, even though there is no medical justification for this, claiming such agreements were vital to women's health.

This was tricky, because many Ohio hospitals are religious, and at least one private hospital actually had donors harassed until they refused to make an agreement.

Then, despite claiming such agreements were vital to human health, Kasich banned all state affiliated hospitals (like university hospitals) from making them.

For a while, Dayton and Cincinnati were able to get "variances" that allowed them to say they had emergency physicians on hand. But the state Dept of Health suddenly decided that three doctors weren't enough, now they needed four. The head of the DoH who denied the variances isn't even a doctor. The closest thing he has to public health experience is being a marketing director for a county health center. He is, however, an explicitly anti-choice republican, and, you guessed it, a Kasich appointee.

If the state government prevails in court, the entire southwest part of the state, including the city of Cincinnati, won't have a single clinic.

If the current situation is upheld, Kasich will have closed or stopped abortion services at over half the clinics in the state with a combination of unqualified medical appointees and stuffing abortion restrictions into the state budget. That's second in the nation behind Texas, but everyone looks at him and thinks he's moderate. It's terrifying.