Abortion

If an abortion rights issue makes the November ballot, it will appear as one issue, not multiple issues, as an anti-abortion group wanted.

An Indiana board is set to hear allegations Thursday that an Indianapolis doctor should face disciplinary action after she spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Columbus.

The coalition that filed an earlier lawsuit against the amendment itself has lodged a legal complaint, saying the Ballot Board is allowing the use of misleading language for the amendment Ohio voters could decide in August.

The Ohio chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed the proposed reproductive rights amendment.

Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate move measures to make it harder to amend the constitution and a plan to put a vote on that onto the August ballot, before a reproductive rights amendment comes to the ballot as expected in November.

An Ohio staffing requirement has shut down two baby boxes, where infants can be surrendered anonymously. It’s sparked debate about options for people carrying unwanted pregnancies to term.

Access to mifepristone, a medication that is used in about half of all abortions nationwide, hangs in the balance of two contradictory court rulings. A date with the Supreme Court is all but certain.

But organizers say the paid circulators will work alongside volunteers gathering signatures to put the amendment on the November ballot.

The lawsuit seeks to halt the reproductive rights issue by asking the Ohio Supreme Court to order it to be broken into two or more parts.

Groups trying to put abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution held small events to gather signatures, and said they showed support for the proposal.