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.
Snollygoster Of The Week
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.
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