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The 2023 Ohio reproductive rights initiative, [2] officially titled " The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety " and listed on the ballot as Issue 1, [3] was a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment adopted on November 7, 2023, by a majority (56.8%) of voters. It codified reproductive rights in the Ohio ...
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 prior to Issue 1 was challenged in court, with the Attorney General of Ohio and other Republican leaders in Ohio defending it in court.
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 ...
The state has other bans, regulations and hurdles that abortion providers say violate what voters approved with nearly 57% of the vote last November. Attorneys for Ohio's abortion providers aren't ...
October 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM. An Ohio judge issued a permanent injunction on Thursday, striking down the state's six-week abortion law as a whole while citing the state's constitutional amendment ...
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 ...
Ohio’s new constitutional projections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. Existing abortion ...
Mayes that instead of a 15-week ban on abortion passed by the state in 2022, that the state should follow a 1902 law, based on a pre-ratification 1864 law, that disallowed nearly any abortion except in the case of a medical emergency, [133] though the state government repealed the 1902 law in May 2024 to allow the 2022 law to take precedence. [134]