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Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023 Ohio Issue 1. [1]A "heartbeat bill" that banned abortions after six weeks of gestational age that was enacted before Issue 1 was challenged in court, with the Attorney General of Ohio and other Republican leaders in Ohio defending it in court.
Abortion rights proponents spent nearly $25 million on advertising in favor of the measure, according to recent data from AdImpact. In comparison, opponents spent $16.3 million.
The law was in effect for 82 days before Jenkins, a Democrat, temporarily blocked it. Ohio abortion providers sued the state to halt the law, which led patients to seek abortions elsewhere and ...
Ohio has enacted nearly three dozen restrictions on the right to abortion in the past decade or so. Each seems almost certain to end up in court, weighed against the backdrop of the new amendment.
City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed its abortion rights jurisprudence. . In a majority opinion by Lewis F. Powell Jr., the Court struck down several provisions of an abortion law of Akron, Ohio, including portions found to be unconstitutionally vag
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
Issue 1 has passed in Ohio. Here's which other U.S. states have protected abortion and which states have abortion bans.
Ohio was the only state to consider a statewide abortion rights question in 2023, joining a growing number of states where voters are choosing to protect abortion access since the U.S. Supreme ...