Inside the latest challenge to Ohio’s reproductive rights amendment

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The Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act, or House Bill 370, seeks to “entirely abolish abortion in this state,” by granting legal personhood from the moment of fertilization. The legislation would extend criminal and civil protections to “unborn persons,” effectively making abortion a criminal act equivalent to homicide.

Although IVF and contraceptive care are not explicitly addressed in the bill, defining legal personhood at conception could threaten access to both.

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