When doctors disappear, women are less safe.
And abusers take advantage.
What Ohio Law Used to Say
No Doctor? No Abortion.
“No person shall knowingly give, sell, dispense, administer, or otherwise provide RU-486 (mifepristone) to another for the purpose of inducing an abortion … unless the person … is a physician …”
No Telemedicine Abortion
“No physician shall personally furnish or otherwise provide an abortion-inducing drug to a pregnant woman unless the physician is physically present …”
What Happened
November 2023: Out-of-state activists rewrote Ohio’s constitution. A ballot initiative was passed, inserting a radical pro-abortion amendment into the Ohio state constitution.
August 2024: Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway ruled that telemedicine abortion bans and physician-only restrictions are now likely unconstitutional. Her reason? The 2023 pro-abortion constitutional amendment.
Judge Hatheway issued injunctions to temporarily block all such restrictions in Ohio law. These injunctions are still in effect today.
What’s Happening Now
Ohio women and their babies are being harmed.
December 2024:
Hassan-James Abbas (Toledo, OH) acquired abortion pills by telemedicine using his estranged wife’s name.
He crushed the pills and forced them into his pregnant girlfriend’s mouth.
She began bleeding and went to the ER. The baby died.
The baby’s mother, who did not want an abortion, is suing Abbas for “wrongful death.”
Hassan-James Abbas is not alone. There have been multiple documented cases of men obtaining abortion pills and secretly forcing them on their pregnant girlfriends.
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