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May 25, 2021
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A city in Southwest Ohio will most likely declare itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn” and outlaw abortion within municipal limits Tuesday evening, multiple pro-life organizations said.
Lebanon’s ordinance is sponsored by six out of seven members of the city’s council, including its mayor, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, and if passed, the ordinance would make the municipality the first town outside of Texas and Nebraska to outlaw abortion.
“We’re hoping Lebanon is the first of many cities (in Ohio) to follow,” Meg DeBlase, executive director of Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati, told the publication. “They’re really an approach to protect a city from an abortionist opening a business, from coming and selling abortion pills there.”
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Fourth place and winner of $500 scholarship is Ana Clapper, Perry High School.
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A case heading to the U.S. Supreme Court next year could have profound impacts on abortion access in Ohio, with advocates on both sides of the debate hoping or fearing that justices will roll back reproductive rights established decades ago.
The Supreme Court announced this week that it will review a Mississippi law, tossed out by lower courts, that bans most abortions after 15 weeks before a fetus is considered viable under current legal standards. Justices aren t expected to make a decision until next year, when Ohio will be in the throes of a contentious midterm election. The fact that this is going before the Supreme Court is putting 50 years of precedent around reproductive rights at risk and in question, said Laurel Powell, spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio. Anti-abortion politicians have really fought for this moment.