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A statement about Issue 1 on the House Republicans’ official government website has raised questions about what the GOP's plans to address abortion-related legislation will look like – and whether they’ll be constitutional.

Some Ohio Republican lawmakers are threatening to alter the democratic process in their favor after Issue 1 passed, enshrining abortion access in the state constitution.

A conservative faction of Ohio Republicans wants to prevent courts from interpreting the new state constitutional amendment on abortion rights.

Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state's constitution this week.

Hoping to follow the success Issue 1 had at the polls enshrining reproductive care in Ohio’s constitution, Democratic state representatives wasted no time in proposing legislation to repeal the six-week abortion ban and eliminate various other restrictions.

Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state’s constitution this week. Republican state Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear said in a news release Thursday that they’ll push to have the Legislature, not the courts, make any decisions about the amendment passed Tuesday. It’s the latest development in the struggle over abortion rights...

Republicans in Ohio want to undermine the will of voters who approved a measure enshrining reproductive freedom into the state’s constitution.

Several Republican lawmakers plan to fight the recently approved abortion rights measure by trying to overthrow the judicial branch's authority to interpret it.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters

After stinging defeat in a statewide vote, GOP lawmakers seek to move jurisdiction to legislature for constitutional amendment