Ohio
Ohio has abortion rights in the constitution. Yet as abortions are on the rise, hospitals have not increased services.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio voters enshrined reproductive rights in the state constitution last year, but smaller clinics continue to provide most of the abortions in the state as Ohio’s hospitals are not increasing services or wading into the abortion debate.
Abortion clinics report seeing increasing numbers of patients, including many from states outside Ohio, where women no longer have abortion rights, according to estimates, though state data won’t be available until later this year. When out-of-state patients arrive in Ohio, they’re often too far along for a medication abortion and need more involved surgical abortions. Clinics say they’re hiring doctors and staff, challenging laws they believe are unconstitutional with the new amendment, and looking for other ways to expand to accommodate the need.
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