At least two Republican lawmakers want to ban abortions in Ohio and make it a crime to have one, challenging protections ...

Reps. Levi Dean, R-Xenia, and Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, will introduce the "Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act" on June 18.

The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act would grant criminal and civil protections from the moment of fertilization.

The number of abortions in the United States grew to 1.14 million last year — driven in part by access to abortion pills via ...

COLUMBUS — Two local GOP lawmakers introduced a bill last week that seeks to make nearly all abortions illegal in Ohio.

Two Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would outlaw all abortions and treat them as homicide in the state of ...

The bill is meant as a direct challenge to the state reproductive rights amendment passed by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023.

More women were able to access abortion care in 2024 than the previous year despite state bans, reflecting a continued increase in the three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ...

In 2019, Ohio lawmakers passed a so-called heartbeat bill that bans abortions after cardiac activity can be detected, which ...

If passed, the bill would criminalize abortion in nearly all circumstances. If passed, the bill would criminalize abortion in ...

Ohio Republicans are introducing a bill to ban all abortions in the state by classifying the procedure as homicide.