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Ohio’s minimum wage might still be $5.15 an hour had a higher voter approval threshold been in effect in previous decades.

In 65 days — in about nine weeks from now, on Tuesday, Aug. 8 — Ohioans will decide who should run their state. 

Hundreds of Indiana doctors are coming to the defense of Caitlin Bernard

Demonstrators protest the legislative initiative that became State Issue 1 outside the Ohio Statehouse

These Republicans — mostly from small towns, suburbs and farm country — apparently want complete control.

Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution packed the statehouse rotunda Wednesday,

Fearing legal repercussions, doctors in Texas say they are risking grave patient harm to comply with new abortion restrictions.

He arrived in the world with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a couple of hours.

Advocates must collect 413,446 valid signatures from at least 44 counties by July 5 to place the constitutional amendment before voters this fall.

There will be an election on Aug. 8 to decide whether to raise to 60% the threshold of support required for passage of ballot measures

The fight over abortion rights in Ohio just got more complicated.

Newly elected Ohio House Speaker Rep. Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) gives brief remarks at the opening day ceremonies

By creating an August election through the resolution itself, though, they may be in for a legal challenge

The survey finds that 66 percent of U.S. adults say mifepristone should remain on the market

Richard Uihlein gave roughly $1.1 million this month to the newly formed Save Our Constitution PAC

A bipartisan group of former Ohio Attorneys General want Ohio General Assembly members to halt a drive by the legislature’s Republican majority

A group that represents more than 1,500 obstetricians and gynecologists in Ohio has officially endorsed the reproductive rights amendment planned for the statewide ballot

A majority of Ohio’s House, aims to signal its contempt for the state’s voters by trying to rig rejection at the polls

Michigan may provide the greatest proof that the anti-abortion ads claiming that Ohio’s abortion amendment will cause mass “sex changes” is utterly false.

Reproductive health laws affect enrollment for 72% of college students

In their zeal to continue upending abortion access after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, legislators, activists and litigants have pushed increasingly extreme measures.

Ohioans could vote on abortion access as soon as this November. But opponents of the measure are trying to shift the debate to parental consent

A state House committee scheduled a committee vote next week on a Republican-led initiative to change a more than 110-year-old rule and raise the popular

In Tennessee, lawmakers, in a naked act of retribution and racism, expelled two Black representativeswho had the audacity to speak their minds.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Wednesday offered another rationale for making it much more difficult for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution.

Ohio’s constitution is caught in a high-stakes tug-of-war.

Ohio’s abortion amendment says nothing about transgender or parental rights, contrary to the anti-abortion ad’s unfounded claims.

A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form of abortion since Roe v. Wade fell

Pro-choice advocates are working to get abortion access on Ohio’s ballot this November, but they need nearly 413,000 signatures in 44 counties by July 5

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said on Sunday that a Texas judge’s ruling that the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone was

Ohio’s abortion amendment says nothing about transgender or parental rights, contrary to the anti-abortion ad’s unfounded claims

States with abortion bans struggle to stop mailed abortion pills from overseas

The discussions to change the rules come as advocates begin to collect signatures on a proposed amendment for the November ballot that would expand abortion

Ohio Senate president eyes August for proposal to raise threshold for voters to pass constitutional amendments.

The campaign to collect the 413,000 signatures to place an item on the November ballot calling for the state constitution to protect abortion rights is

Abortion is one step closer to appearing on Ohioans’ ballots in November.

The proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution cleared the Ohio Ballot Board Monday after the five-member board certified that the proposal was one issue rather

The women, backed by an abortion-rights group, say they were denied abortions under state law despite risks to themselves and their fetuses that made the

As the Ohio General Assembly works its way toward abolishing all access to safe abortions in this state, it also works its way toward destabilizing

Fertility advancements are helping people conceive well beyond 45 — what happens when they need abortions?

Coalition of lawyers, doctors and activists hope to put the question of abortion directly to state voters after toppling of Roe v Wade.

A reproductive rights coalition hopes to repeat the success of similar measures that passed in multiple US states last fall.

Two groups advocating for abortion rights submitted fall ballot language Tuesday for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Ohioans’ access to abortion, an effort that opponents have

On Tuesday, Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights finished the first step in getting abortion on the ballot.

Amendment would include a right for every individual “to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions.”

Abortion rights groups preparing to put a constitutional amendment on the Ohio ballot released the proposed language Tuesday, the same day they sent it to

Groups aiming to change the Ohio Constitution to ensure access to abortion have joined together with plans to file language.

“The sheer amount of money poured into the anti-abortion movement…we’re now seeing it mainstreamed on some level,” an abortion rights activist told Jezebel.

Groups could file ballot language as early as next week.

In all six ballot measures last year, abortion rights have won. Now it’s the Buckeye state’s turn to weigh in.

The Nov. 7 ballot this fall must include a citizen-initiated referendum to amend our state constitution so that it ensures sensible and equitable reproductive rights for

“Simply put, they see the urgent need for action because they know the terrible price of inaction for pregnant and child-bearing Ohioans of all ages.”

A couple’s unborn baby was diagnosed with deadly condition but Ohio’s laws made abortion nearly impossible

One group plans to file language for a ballot issue this month and start collecting signatures to put abortion issue before voters in November.

Linda Prine, a physician and co-founder of the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline, describes the new realities for patients in states where the procedure is banned.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, it promised to “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

In North Carolina, GOP leaders say socially conservative Democrats could hold the key to a six-week ban.

Republican lawmakers failed to approve a proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution before a key deadline last week.

A study done by legal and academic researchers found that implementation of abortion regulations in Ohio “have become exceedingly difficult to comply with.”

The Republican National Committee passed a resolution calling for more attacks on reproductive rights.

It’s important to counter medical misinformation related to early pregnancy.

Despite all the headlines about the procedure, many Americans do not know basic facts about abortions or who gets them. Take the NPR quiz.

A Hamilton County judge’s decision to block enforcement of a state law that “largely bans abortion access in Ohio” will stand, for now, an appeals court said in an opinion released Friday.

Weeks after her miscarriage was confirmed, Christina Zielke started bleeding heavily while on a trip out of town. At an ER in Ohio, she was given tests but no treatment, and discharged soon after, still bleeding. She says she was told the hospital needed proof there was no fetal development.

Weeks after her miscarriage was confirmed, Christina Zielke started bleeding heavily while on a trip out of town. At an ER in Ohio, she was given tests but no treatment, and discharged soon after, still bleeding. She says she was told the hospital needed proof there was no fetal development.

More than a thousand people gathered at Market Square in Cleveland on Saturday afternoon, October 2, 2021, to protest laws aimed at women’s reproductive rights, particularly the recent abortion law that was passed in Texas. The march was similar to other marches taking place around the United States in more than 500 cities.

Justin and Tara still want to have a family, but Ohio’s changing laws make them “nervous” and “unsure” because they “have no idea what the laws [will] look like,” Tara said. “[We’re] just trying to hope that something changes for the better so that we can stay here.”

Documents describe dozens of painful situations under Ohio abortion restrictions. At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies, according to sworn affidavits filed by abortion providers.

The case of a 10-year-old girl who had to travel from her home in Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion after being raped has become national news—and a major political issue following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.