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Republican Attorney General Dave Yost admitted in his brief in the Ohio Supreme Court case that Issue 1 makes the ban on abortion after six weeks illegal, but also said that shouldn't end the case.
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A pregnant Kentuckian filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against Kentucky's trigger and six-week bans on abortion. She says the laws violate her constitutional rights.
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We discuss the next steps now that Issue 1 has passed, which Ohio laws could be targeted and how the new amendment could be challenged.
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All three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate — Frank LaRose, Matt Dolan and Bernie Moreno — oppose abortion. One of them will face Sherrod Brown next fall in a state that clearly supports abortion rights.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has asked the parties in a lawsuit over the six-week abortion ban how it’s affected by the newly passed amendment. The head of Ohio Right to Life said he thinks Issue 1 makes the ban unconstitutional.
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Senate President Matt Huffman's takeaway from the passage of Issue 1, the amendment that enshrines abortion rights into the state constitution, boils down to a simple principle: "People don't like the government telling them what to do."
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House Speaker Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) said he doesn't agree with an idea floated by some Republicans suggesting Ohio lawmakers take power from courts when it comes to the new constitutional amendment on abortion.
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Jen Miller, executive director for the League of Women Voters of Ohio, said lawmakers are not doing the will of the people right now and, because of gerrymandering, they don’t have to.
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The majority of the electorate in Ohio's Nov. 7 election were white men and women, and voters between ages 45-64. A third of voters were independents, and two-thirds of them voted for both Issues 1 and 2.
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A statement about Issue 1 on the House Republicans' official government website has raised questions about what the GOP's plans to address abortion-related legislation will look like — and whether they'll be constitutional.