COLUMBUS (AP) -- Abortion-rights supporters are protesting restrictions on the procedure slipped into the state budget at the last minute.
The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which supports abortion, scheduled a rally Thursday ahead of votes planned in the Ohio House and Senate on Ohio's $62 billion, two-year state operating budget.
Advocates oppose an 11th hour budget amendment that would require Ohio abortion providers to inform pregnant women seeking the procedure if a fetal heartbeat is present. They also oppose the budget's effective defunding of Planned Parenthood, whose health care offerings to low-income patients can include abortions.
Created Equal, a group opposing abortion, has scheduled a counter-rally to protest Planned Parenthood.
Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich opposes abortion but has not said what budget vetoes he plans.
Photo courtesy Alexander Smith
The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which supports abortion, scheduled a rally Thursday ahead of votes planned in the Ohio House and Senate on Ohio's $62 billion, two-year state operating budget.
Advocates oppose an 11th hour budget amendment that would require Ohio abortion providers to inform pregnant women seeking the procedure if a fetal heartbeat is present. They also oppose the budget's effective defunding of Planned Parenthood, whose health care offerings to low-income patients can include abortions.
Created Equal, a group opposing abortion, has scheduled a counter-rally to protest Planned Parenthood.
Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich opposes abortion but has not said what budget vetoes he plans.
Photo courtesy Alexander Smith
