Those promoting drastically redrawing the district lines in Ohio see the impact of those districts in all sorts of areas: from voting access to education and even in the doctor’s office for some patients.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Though Ohio never formally enacted a so-called heartbeat bill banning abortions after six weeks of gestation, legislative and legal actions appear to have fueled beliefs that abortion is illegal in the state, a new study has found.
One in 10 Ohio women surveyed for the study thought abortion was prohibited. The percentage with that belief increased from 5% to 16% during the study period, corresponding to sustained activity to limit abortions from fall of 2018 through summer of 2019. The study appears in the
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Maria Gallo, the study s lead author and a professor of epidemiology at The Ohio State University, said repeated legislative attempts at extreme restrictions on abortion, the veto by one governor and support of another, and court actions on the legislation were confusing, even to her.
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