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Sen. Jon Husted cites Ohio case in push for abortion drug restrictions
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jon Husted questioned witnesses at a Senate hearing Wednesday about cases where men allegedly slipped mifepristone to women without their consent, citing examples from Ohio and Texas to argue for reinstating in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion drug.
“I’ve seen some of the horrors of men who are trying to use the drug to end pregnancies against the will of the woman that they give the drug to,” Husted told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee during its hearing titled “Protecting Women’s Health: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs.”
“This is not the choice of a woman controlling her own body,” he said.
Ohio case among examples cited
Husted presented two cases to illustrate his concerns, including one where Toledo-area doctor Hassan-James Abbas was indicted after he was accused of obtaining the drug from an out-of-state telemedicine provider and used it to secretly end his girlfriend’s pregnancy.
Abbas is accused of ordering mifepristone and misoprostol after the woman said she didn’t want an abortion by using his estranged wife’s identity and then forcing them into the woman’s mouth while she slept. His license to practice medicine has been suspended.
Husted also cited a 2025 Texas case where a man is accused of obtaining mifepristone and slipping it into the hot chocolate of a woman he had impregnated, and who was refusing to get an abortion.
Senator’s personal connection
Husted opened his questioning by sharing his own adoption story, which he has discussed publicly before.
“I started out in foster care, was adopted, and know that my birth mother was under a lot of pressure to have an abortion, and thankfully for me, she didn’t,” the Republican senator said. “I know that my biological father had pressured her to do so, and she chose an adoption.”
He said reflecting on his background made him question whether he would exist today if mifepristone had been as easily accessible when his birth mother was pregnant. “I would like to think that my birth mother would have still chosen to have an adoption, but I’ve seen some of the horrors of men who are trying to use the drug to end pregnancies against the will of the woman that they give the drug to,” he said.
Question of access vs. safety
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, a witness at the hearing, told Husted that putting an in-person dispensing requirement in place would address the problem.
Murrill responded that Louisiana believes “putting the in-person dispensing requirement back in place would substantially protect women.” She noted that Louisiana has placed the drugs on its state controlled substances list “so that we can track who’s prescribing them and make sure that there’s some accountability for the use of these medications.”
The hearing featured sharply contrasting testimony about mifepristone’s safety and the impact of FDA regulations governing its distribution.
In her written testimony, Murrill argued that the Biden administration’s 2023 decision to remove in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone was “not a legal or medically-informed decision, but a purely political one.”
She presented cases from Louisiana where she said women were harmed by mail-order abortion drugs, including a teenager allegedly coerced by her mother and cases where women experienced medical emergencies.
Testimony from Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, an Adjunct Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, outlined various complications associated with medication abortion and argued that “telemedicine abortion” and “self-administered abortion are unsafe and endanger women.”
However, Dr. Nisha Verma of Physicians for Reproductive Health stated that “the science on mifepristone’s safety and effectiveness is longstanding and settled,” noting the drug “has been rigorously researched and proven safe and effective in hundreds of high-quality, peer-reviewed studies.”
She testified that serious adverse events with medication abortion “are very rare, consistently occurring in well under one percent of cases.”
CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Sixty percent of children in Ohio are not ready for kindergarten when they start school.
Now, a national nonprofit is working to change that by expanding access to books and promoting early literacy across the state.
Sixty percent of children in Ohio are not ready for kindergarten when they start school. (WKRC file)
Nedra Smith has seen the difference firsthand. Her two young daughters receive books through the program at their pediatrician visits at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
“They love to read now,” Smith said. “We’ll randomly be out and they’ll see a book and want to read a book.”
Reach Out and Read partners with pediatricians to give children books during regular checkups and encourage parents to read aloud with them. The program has been part of Cincinnati Children’s for more than a decade.
“They typically come in and tell us they got new books,” Smith said. “They typically ask me to read the book right then and there.”
Program leaders say early literacy is increasingly being recognized as an important part of a child’s overall health and development.
“Initially, literacy may not have been in the forefront or seen as a health benefit,” said Kristy High, program manager for Reach Out and Read. “Well-child checks focus on shots, nutrition, and those things; but now we want to focus on those main benefits for the development and milestones when it comes to learning.”
The organization is now working to expand its reach statewide, with a goal of serving children in all 88 Ohio counties.
“We know that those first five years of life are the most critical for brain development,” said Steven Lake, executive director of Reach Out and Read Ohio. “If we can intervene as early as possible, essentially, we reach out at birth; we know we can have the greatest impact.”
Smith encourages other parents to participate in the program and read to their children.
“It’s fun,” Smith said. “It’s actually fun to see them light up, and I think they’ll pass that on to their own kids as well.”
Reach Out and Read also partners with providers in Kentucky and Indiana. You can find a participating provider near you on the organization’s website.
If you are a doctor looking to participate in the program, click here.
The Ohio Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at May 10, 2026, results for each game:
Pick 3
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 8-6-2
Evening: 7-0-5
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Pick 4
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 9-4-7-0
Evening: 0-6-1-8
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Pick 5
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 1-7-3-7-4
Evening: 9-0-8-8-0
Check Pick 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Rolling Cash 5
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 7:05 p.m.
16-19-33-36-38
Check Rolling Cash 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Millionaire for Life
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 11:15 p.m.
01-03-20-35-46, Bonus: 05
Check Millionaire for Life payouts and previous drawings here.
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Ryan Day will have some very familiar competition in the Big 10 soon.
The son of the Ohio State football coach, R.J. Day, announced his commitment to Northwestern for the Class of 2027 on Sunday.
Northwestern plays in the same conference as Ohio State and the schools will face each other.
R.J. Day, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound quarterback from — not surprisingly — Columbus, Ohio, has started for three years at St. Francis DeSales HS as he heads towards his senior season.
According to reports, the younger Day had other offers from Purdue, Syracuse, Cincinnati and South Florida, as well as others.
Northwestern has eight quarterbacks on head coach David Braun’s roster.
And the offensive coordinator for the Wildcats is Chip Kelly, who served in the same role for Ryan Day at Ohio State when the Buckeyes won the title in 2024.
Kelly, the former head coach at UCLA and Oregon, was also the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire when Ryan Day was the team captain from 1998-2001.
Most recently, Kelly was the OC with the Las Vegas Raiders before he took the job with Northwestern.
“It’s really surreal when you think about the relationships that we’ve had with those two as a family over the years,” R.J. Day told ESPN earlier this month. “Coach Kelly coached my dad in college, so that adds another layer to it.”
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