Republican lawmakers ignore the will of the people

Despite the constitutional amendment approved by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023, OhioRepublican lawmakers have introduced four bills to regulate abortion and reproductive healthcare.

The bills touch on “fetal personhood,” abortion medication prescribed through telehealth, information required to be shared by physicians when discussing chemical abortion and a ban on Medicaid funds going to facilities that provide abortion.

Republicans are emboldened in these efforts to regulate abortion in Ohio despite an amendment adding abortion rights to the state Constitution in Ohio because they hold a supermajority in the legislature, a Republican governor and attorney general, and a Supreme Court with a 6-1 Republican majority . They think they

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