California bans state travel to Ohio, saying law could harm LGBT people seeking medical care

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is banning state-funded travel to Ohio over the state’s new law allowing doctors to decline medical services to people on moral or religious grounds. The Ohio measure triggered a 2016 California law that requires the attorney general to prohibit state-funded travel to states that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, according to a Friday news release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta. The ban takes effect Sept. 30, according to the release. Ohio will become the 18th state to which California won’t pay for travel, accordin...