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Abortion In Ohio

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Abortion supporters gather outside the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday to rally against the anti-abortion laws in the state.
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Abortion supporters gather outside the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday to rally against the anti-abortion laws in the state.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown examine the backlash against the strict abortion bans passing in Ohio and states across the county. , statehouse reporter for Ohio Public Radio and Television, joins the show.

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On this week's episode:

The Legality Of Abortion

Abortion rights this week to denounce a flurry of passed in Ohio and around the country. Legal abortion faces these new attacks in part because the U.S. Supreme Court has a clear five-justice conservative majority after the appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

Those new appointments have given anti-abortion groups new hope of overturning "Roe v. Wade," something Ohio activists made explicit with the recent "heartbeat" abortion ban.

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Ohio House Republicans sparked controversy with a . Energy industry lobbyists have funded House GOP campaigns but legislators deny undue influence.

While the bill is still ostensibly a "clean energy" bill, it now may include money for two coal-fired power plants, and an amended version removes from the types of energy eligible for clean energy credits. 

Do you have a question or comment for us? Email us at snollygoster@wosu.org.

Mike Thompson spends much of his time correcting people who mispronounce the name of his hometown – Worcester, Massachusetts. Mike studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University when he was not running in circles – as a distance runner on the SU track team.
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