Advocates on each side get ready for possible vote to legalize abortion in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio Activists on each side of the debate are preparing for a summer of advocating for or combatting against an amendment to let Ohioans choose if abortion is legal.
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights only have one more month to finish getting hundreds of thousands of signatures to put an amendment on the November ballot that gives voters a choice on reproductive care.
"The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety" would allow every person to have the legal choice on abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care and continuing a pregnancy. It would also prohibit the state from interfering or penalizing an individual's voluntary exercise of this right or anyone or entity that helps in utilizing this right.
Tina Barhams is one of the hundreds of petitioners collecting signatures for the November ballot.
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