2021 Legislation in the works
​Greater Toledo Right to Life's legislative Agenda 2021 - 2022
Born Alive Infant Protection Act, SB 157– The bill requires that doctors perform the life-saving treatment if a baby is born alive after a botched abortion. Also, the Public Funding for Abortion (Prohibits public facilities or private institutions of higher education from receiving state money if they perform or induce nontherapeutic abortions or employ or affiliate with a physician who does so.) was amended to SB 157. The Act was passed in early December and signed by the Governor in late December.
​Woman's Right to Know, HB 421 – The bill requires abortion providers, during the informed consent period before an abortion, to inform the woman of the significant increase in breast cancer related to abortion and to the strong likelihood of post-traumatic stress symptoms associated with abortion.
2363 Act, HB 480 – The act protects the fundamental, constitutional right to be born, and it authorizes a private right of action against a person for performing or inducing abortion or engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of abortion. It declares the personhood of the preborn from fertilization. This bill patterns its enforcement mechanisms after the Texas Heartbeat Law. (This bill replaces RTLACO Life at Conception legislation.)
The Trigger Bill SB 123 – The bill enacts several abortion-related provisions that apply only upon the occurrence of either of the following that wholly or partially upholds a state's authority to prohibit abortion: the issuance of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe, or the adoption of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting the unborn.
Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (ASF) Reform – We are working with our local legislators to craft a bill to bring much-needed reform to Ohio's ASF licensing law. This bill would accomplish several significant reforms. It would require that the abortion pill be dispensed in person, by a physician, not via telemedicine or mail. It would remove or severely limit Ohio's Department of Health (ODH) discretion to enforce the licensing law, health code, and safety violations. Two abortion mills in Ohio have been operating without an active license for three years, and ODH has done nothing to close them down!
Sustain Life Resolution, HCR 26 – This resolution would express the legislature's support of the right of patients and families to direct their own healthcare decisions. It will express the state's support of food and water as basic care rather than as a medical intervention that can be withdrawn from a patient by a provider.