abortion

Ohio voters approved a sweeping reproductive rights amendment in 2023. Opponents look to a changed Ohio Supreme Court to rein in those rights.

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women facing high-risk pregnancies say they are worried they could be denied miscarriage treatment.

Birth control pills are available over-the-counter starting this week, but some Northeast Ohio pharmacies have yet to receive any supply. Meanwhile, CVS and Walgreens are dispensing abortion pills in some states, but not in Ohio.

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost admitted in his brief in the Ohio Supreme Court case that Issue 1 makes the ban on abortion after six weeks illegal, but also said that shouldn’t end the case.

Issue 1 will be on the November General Election ballot to determine the future of reproductive rights in Ohio.

All of the justices rejected the lawsuit attempting to keep the abortion rights amendment off Ohio’s November ballot.

Abortion access has declined dramatically nationwide, but many states have further protected abortion by enacting "shield laws," allocating funding, stockpiling medication and repealing old laws.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose now says his support of a plan to make it harder to change the state constitution is about fending off an abortion rights amendment.

People from some of the hundreds of groups that oppose the resolution to make it harder to amend Ohio's constitution and a bill to create an August special election to vote on it marched on the Statehouse Wednesday.

Jaci and Dustin Statton didn't think Oklahoma's abortion bans would affect them. They were open to having more kids. They didn't imagine Jaci would face a life-threatening pregnancy, though.