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![Ohio Right to Life president Mike Gonidakis talks to reporters after Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board approves language for Issue 1, the reproductive rights and abortion access amendment on the November 2023 ballot, as Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights spokesperson Lauren Blauvelt (center, in black glasses) watches.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/download-1-2-e1695231776450-900x422.webp)
Ohio Supreme Court orders slight change in wording on the reproductive rights ballot issue
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a change in the language that voters will see on the reproductive rights amendment known as Issue 1 on… Read More
![Abortion rights supporters protest at the Ohio Statehouse on Sunday, June 26, 2022](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img-2755-scaled-e1659643028627-900x422.jpg)
There’s already confusion over the abortion ballot language in Ohio. It’s going to get worse
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters will decide Nov. 7 on Issue 1, an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights into the constitution. There already has been confusion… Read More
![Ohio State Supreme Court building](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/another_shot_of_ohio_supreme_court_gavel__credit_dan_konik_-e1566946449440-900x422.jpg)
Supporters of November’s abortion amendment file a lawsuit against the Ohio Ballot Board over its approved ballot language
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A lawsuit has been filed over the summary language the Ohio Ballot Board chose last week for a proposed amendment on the November ballot… Read More
![The Ohio Ballot Board meets at the Ohio Statehouse to approve ballot language for the November election.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/download-4-e1692914146747-900x422.webp)
Ohio’s Ballot Board adopts controversial language for the proposed abortion amendment
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Ballot Board has adopted summary language that voters would see on their ballots when they go to the polls in November to vote… Read More
![The Ohio Ballot Board sits for a meeting in a statehouse committee meeting room.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/download-3-1-e1692821546480-900x422.webp)
Controversy is expected at panel to determine the language for issues on Ohio’s November ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Ballot Board, the panel that determines the language voters see on their ballots, meets Thursday afternoon, and those involved in the process… Read More
![Poll workers wait for voters in Franklin County, Ohio behind a door that has a voting today sign taped to it](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img-5094-scaled-e1659541443501-900x422.jpg)
Political experts weigh in on how abortion and marijuana on the same ballot might affect outcomes
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio voters will decide two controversial issues on the ballot in November — whether to pass a law to legalize marijuana and whether to… Read More
![The Ohio Supreme Court building from the outside](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dsc-0006-scaled-e1659992862253-900x422.jpg)
The Ohio Supreme Court rejects a lawsuit to keep the abortion rights amendment off November’s ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit that sought to keep the proposed abortion amendment from making it onto the statewide ballot this… Read More
![Gov. Mike DeWine signs SB263 into law on January 6, 2021.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mike_dewine_signs_sb263_010621_6-e1614904856802-900x422.jpeg)
DeWine backs off his earlier suggestion that lawmakers should change Ohio’s abortion policy
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday saidnow is not the time for the state to make changes to its abortion policy. That’s a contrast from… Read More
![Senate President Matt Huffman speaks to reporters in the senate chamber](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/img-6070-scaled-e1655408175381-900x422.jpg)
A key Issue 1 backer says the November vote may not be the last on abortion in Ohio
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — One of the main backers of Issue 1 says the fight over abortion rights likely will not end in November if voters approve the amendment… Read More
![Protestors hold up signs in support of reproductive rights](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/my-body-my-choice-pic-e1656539566324-900x422.jpg)
What happens to the proposed abortion amendment now that Issue 1 has failed? There are several possibilities
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Opponents of Issue 1 barely had time to celebrate their victory at the ballot box before they turned their attention to the next fight –… Read More
![Iris Sidikman, harm reduction coordinator at the Women's Health Center of West Virginia, holds a wound care kit the clinic has on hand for intravenous drug users seeking care in the clinic parking lot in Charleston, W.Va.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/wound-care-kit-e1691364434971-900x422.jpg)
As clinics pivot post-Roe, battle rages over syringe service in opioid-ravaged West Virginia
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Staff at Women’s Health Center of West Virginia know what it’s like to provide controversial health services that government officials have sought to ban or restrict…. Read More
![A person holds a cell phone](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/voipattacks_custom-e0641dc4c4ef48c1420a5ff7099ae27daf9a9d42-scaled-e1638807232231-900x422.jpg)
Court cases targeting abortion highlight digital privacy concerns
By: PBS Newshour
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (PBS NewsHour) — In July, a Nebraska teenager and her mother were convicted after the teen terminated her pregnancy using abortion pills. Among the prosecution’s key evidence was… Read More
![Voters line up in Columbus at Franklin County's early voting center on the first day of early in-person voting for the August special election.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-1-1-e1689194697607-900x422.webp)
Issue 1 is drawing an unusually large turnout, straining some election offices
By: Samantha Hendrickson | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A hastily called summer special election over a Republican-pushed measure that would make it harder for Ohio voters to pass future constitutional amendments, including one on… Read More
![Ohio State Supreme Court building](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/another_shot_of_ohio_supreme_court_gavel__credit_dan_konik_-e1566946449440-900x422.jpg)
Lawsuit asks Ohio Supreme Court to toss reproductive rights amendment off November ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A lawsuit asks the Ohio Supreme Court to block the proposed reproductive and abortion rights amendment that’s been certified to appear on the ballot in… Read More
![Boxes of petitions containing signatures supporting putting an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot sit in a U-Haul truck outside the Ohio Secretary of State's office, waiting to be unloaded.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-e1688569656724-900x422.webp)
It’s official. The proposed abortion amendment will be on Ohio’s November ballot.
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Secretary of State’s office has certified petitions submitted by a coalition of doctors, abortion rights advocates and others who want Ohioans to… Read More
![Abortion rights supporters protest at the Ohio Statehouse on Sunday, June 26, 2022](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img-2755-scaled-e1659643028627-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s Attorney General wants access to medical records of Ohioans who go out of state for abortions
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is among 19 attorneys general who have signed onto a letter to the Biden administration, saying their states have… Read More
![Boxes of petitions containing signatures supporting putting an abortion rights amendment on the November ballot sit in a U-Haul truck outside the Ohio Secretary of State's office, waiting to be unloaded.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-e1688569656724-900x422.webp)
Abortion rights supporters file signatures to get an amendment to Ohio voters in November
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Groups that support reproductive rights submitted more than 700,000 signatures to put an amendment guaranteeing access to abortion in Ohio before voters in November…. Read More
![Supporters of abortion rights gather signatures at a race in downtown Columbus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-7-e1684775139490-900x422.webp)
Ohio abortion advocates will submit signatures for a constitutional amendment Wednesday
By: George Shillcock | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — Pro-abortion rights advocates in Ohio are preparing to turn in hundreds of thousands of signatures this week in an effort to put a constitutional amendment on the… Read More
![ACLU workers process petitions gathered by the organization to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would codify abortion in Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/download-1-e1687903515297-900x422.webp)
Backers of an Ohio abortion amendment prepare to submit petitions for the November ballot
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Advocates for reproductive rights spent the weekend making their last big push collecting petition signatures. The coalition must turn in 414,000 valid signatures to… Read More
![Petition circulator gathers signatures for Ohio reproductive rights petitions at the Ohio Statehouse](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Abortion-Petition-STATEHOUSE-e1687495178673-900x422.webp)
1 year since Roe fell: From abortion lawsuits to constitutional amendments in Ohio
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion, the fight over abortion has turned from the courts to the court… Read More
![Abortion rights supporters demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gettyimages-1404897401-5503a0696dda5e764cbf0bf02a443f3e8f2de310-scaled-e1687273875445-900x422.jpg)
Some states are restricting abortion. Others are spending millions to fund it
By: Sarah McCammon | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — As a growing number of states restrict abortion, other states and some local municipalities are substantially increasing funding for abortion and other reproductive health services. At least… Read More
![Abortion rights supporters protest at the Ohio Statehouse on Sunday, June 26, 2022](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img-2755-scaled-e1659643028627-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s State Supreme Court rules the abortion question will go forward as single issue
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a blow to abortion opponents in Ohio, a fall ballot issue aimed at enshrining access to the procedure in state’s constitution will not be split into two… Read More
![The outside of a Planned Parenthood](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/screen-shot-2019-09-04-at-2.56.5420PM-e1663945519853-900x422.png)
As abortion battles shift, Planned Parenthood to boost regional affiliate funds and cut national staff
By: Geoff Mulvihill | Thalia Beaty | AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Planned Parenthood is shifting funding to its state affiliates and cutting national office staff to reflect a changed landscape in both how abortion is provided and how battles over access are… Read More
![Dr. Franz Theard performs a sonogram on a patient seeking abortion services at the Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/gettyimages-1241524424-dfa7c6a3fb7982bf0e74b4a5a79fde290b1f8e56-scaled-e1684855350153-900x422.jpg)
Abortion bans drive off doctors and close clinics, putting other health care at risk
By: Julie Rovner | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The rush in conservative states to ban abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade is resulting in a startling consequence that abortion opponents may not have… Read More
![Supporters of abortion rights gather signatures at a race in downtown Columbus.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/download-7-e1684775139490-900x422.webp)
How an August vote on Ohio’s Issue 1 affects the campaign for an abortion access amendment this fall
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Volunteers and paid workers are working throughout Ohio trying to collect signatures for a November vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion… Read More
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