New Research Shows Just How Harmful Ohio’s Abortion Law Was

A new study of Ohio’s 2011 restrictive abortion law has verified what many state abortion advocates suspected for years: Instead of protecting women’s health, as the law promised, it put women’s health at greater risk.

This law relied on federal drug standards from 2000 to inform 2011 instructions and dosage for the abortion pill mifepristone. Even though new research found that these outdated rules were no longer the safest for women, conservative Ohio lawmakers pushed the law forward. This law also made abortions more complicated and expensive to obtain....
https://thinkprogress.org/data-shows-ohio-abortion-law-knowingly-hurt-women-af4e5d9948c6#.m19smb1pr