Ohio Right to Life

For the second time this week, a new Ohio law requiring fetal tissue from abortions be buried or cremated was put on hold. Now, Statehouse correspondent Jo Ingles reports Ohio’s new telemedicine abortion law will not go into effect on April 12th as planned.

Ohio anti-abortion activists are using the nomination of conservative Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court to again reintroduce a bill that would ban all abortions if the Roe v. Wade ruling is overturned. 

Abortion was a big issue in Ohio in 2019, as it has been for several years. 

A new bill that would ban abortion  in Ohio has been introduced by two GOP lawmakers in the Ohio House. 

An embattled abortion clinic, the only one in Dayton, has received a license from the state to perform surgical abortions.

An estimated 99 ,000 low income Ohioans who want birth control and reproductive health care services have fewer options now that Planned Parenthood nationwide has pulled out of the federal Title X program.

Two Planned Parenthood offices in the Cincinnati area are closing their doors. 

A new bill at the Statehouse would require doctors to provide information to women receiving a medication abortion on how they could reverse the procedure.

Planned Parenthood officials are voicing outrage against the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati's ruling upholding a state law that blocks public funding for the organization. 

Ohio lawmakers are considering two bills on abortion as the Lame Duck session nears an end. 

The Ohio House has approved the controversial 'heartbeat bill' that bans abortion at the point  a fetal heartbeat is detected. 

A lawsuit has been filed over a newly signed state law that bans abortion at the point a Down Syndrome diagnosis is made.

An Ohio House committee has passed a bill that would make the state the third in the country to ban abortion after a Down Syndrome diagnosis.

For the second time in a month, the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday heard a case involving an abortion provider.

The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments about whether to keep Toledo's only abortion clinic open.

Candidates for statewide office seeking endorsements by the state's largest anti-abortion organization will have to meet new criteria.

Ohio's largest group representing abortion opponents is cheering news that two clinics that offered the procedure have closed their doors.

Abortion rights activists staged a demonstration at the Statehouse Tuesday as a Republican-backed bill banning an abortion procedure was introduced in committee.

A controversial abortion bill Governor John Kasich vetoed at the end of last year has been reintroduced in the Ohio legislature.

Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich has vetoed the so-called "Hearbeat Bill" but signed into law a separate ban on abortions after 20 weeks.

State lawmakers are expected to consider two bills that restrict abortions during the upcoming lame duck session.