Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted's extremist record on abortion is out of touch with the citizens of his state of Ohio, which recently voted to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution after the fall of Roe v. Wade. Husted called the abortion pill mifepristone "unsafe" and sought to ban its use, and has backed abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest or even for the life of the mother.
Two weeks ago, Husted called on the FDA to ban the abortion pill mifepristone when asked about its use, falsely claiming, "A lot of the abortion drugs that are out there are not safe for women, misleading information out there, and we need to make sure that [women] have all the facts." Mifepristone has been approved for use by the FDA for over 20 years. Every major study done on mif

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