Abortion

Reproductive rights advocates argue that both access to abortion and birth control is on the ballot in Ohio this year—though more indirectly than in 2023.

Former president Donald Trump made controversial comments about abortion and IVF in Florida, where voters will see an amendment similar to the one that passed in Ohio last year.

On Friday, a Franklin County judge blocked the state law that demanded patients wait 24 hours before getting abortions.

A Franklin County judge has agreed to halt Ohio’s 2021 law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before a patient can get an abortion.

The long-awaited ruling on the six-week abortion ban will come from a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge on Aug. 29.

Abortion is a key issue Democrats in Ohio plan to talk about in the U.S. Senate campaign this fall.

The decision involved mifepristone, one of the most common medications used for abortion in Ohio and the U.S.

The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.

Pro-Choice Ohio has renamed itself Abortion Forward, nearly seven months after the passage of Issue 1.

The case the Ohio docs are watching involves a federal law requiring hospitals and health professionals to provide emergency medical care.