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Our office just sent out the full list of Ohio House votes on House Bill 347 to our supporters. Ohioans should know how much or how little their lawmakers respect them.

Our office just sent out the full list of Ohio House votes on House Bill 347 to our supporters. Ohioans should know how much or how little their lawmakers respect them.

Statement from @abortionforward.bsky.social following passage of House Bill 347:

The Ohio House is now debating House Bill 347, which would restore a 24-hour waiting period on abortion care in Ohio.

HB 249 just passed the House by a vote of 63-30. This is incredibly disappointing. This bill is yet another attempt to silence and censor the LGBTQ community by denying drag performers their constitutional right to free expression.

The Ohio House is debating a bill to severely restrict drag performances, which would likely be a legal vehicle for the harassment of Trans folks. Rep. @berylbrownpic.bsky.social is doing a wonderful job speaking against the bill on the House floor.

The Ohio House of Representatives convenes at 2pm, and we are expecting floor votes on two bills that violate our civil liberties. ❌HB 249: effectively bans most drag performances in Ohio ❌HB 347: imposes a 24-hour waiting period for abortion care Livestream here: ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-ho...

Release: In an attempt to gain conservative votes before a primary election, Ohio state legislators are regurgitating a fictitious and potentially harmful concept and reintroducing a bill to push misinformation on patients seeking medication abortion.

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Read Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez in full:

This was such a well-framed and heartfelt testimony that I applauded from the back of the room:

Discriminating against drag performances based on the content of their expression directly undermines the First Amendment. Let's call HB 249 what it is: a malicious attempt to remove LGBTQ people from public life.

⏰The House Judiciary Committee will soon hear opponent testimony on HB 249, Ohio's drag ban. 🪩Drag is protected speech, just like any other art form. 📲Tell lawmakers to reject this bill: action.aclu.org/send-message...

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Happening now: The Ohio House Health Committee is voting on House Bill 347 to the floor for a full chamber vote. The bill would reimpose the 24-hour waiting period for abortion, which has been blocked in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The bill passes along party lines.

Happening now: The Ohio House Education Committee is hearing testimony on a bill to push a deeply flawed concept called the "Success Sequence" on students, attempting to push young people into a pre-formed mold for life that ignores the reality of socioeconomic factors.

Who here wants their sixth grader to get sex ed. in a pep rally with high school seniors? Any parents want that? Anybody? No? NOPE. NO ONE WANTS THIS.

This is a dubious and easily disprovable claim. Saying your video is "endorsed by Nat. Geo." is like me saying my statement is approved by Merriam-Webster since I'm using the same English words that appear in their dictionary.

Happening now: The Ohio Senate Committee on Education is hearing sponsor testimony on a bill to force educators to show anti-abortion propaganda videos to students.

#CelebrateAbortionProviders not just today, but everyday 💜 Providers and clinic staff deserve all the support they can get, and more.

Regardless of immigration status, everyone has basic rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution. Know your rights: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Happening now: The Ohio House Committee on Health is hearing opponent testimony on House Bill 347, which would attempt to restore a ALREADY STRUCK DOWN AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL 24-hour waiting period on abortion in Ohio.

👏This moment has been years in the making, and we are so proud of the grassroots @cbussafety.bsky.social campaign for putting up this proposal that will reduce violence, restore community trust, save lives, and transform Columbus for the better. Next step: #GetOutTheVote 🗳️✅

🚨BREAKING: We reached a historic agreement with Columbus elected officials to place a unified crisis response program on the May 2026 primary election ballot! Our amendment will enable non-police response workers to meet the needs of community members experiencing behavioral health crises. 🧵

We're watching the racist, rapist, war-mongering oligarch because he needs to be held accountable. We'd encourage everyone in the US House chamber tonight to find their spines remove him from office ASAP.

Senator Booker, who will not be attending tonight's address: "We are at a point of extreme crisis. There should not be business as usual. And we should not treat tonight as just another State of the Union address."

❌ Anti-abortion propaganda doesn't belong in schools. House Bill 485 is the opposite of what Ohio's youth need. "This video, and therefore this bill, is medically inaccurate and harmful to Ohio children who deserve evidence-based health education."

I've never heard a committee chair make such a clear and obvious statement showing why a bill before them is unnecessary.

Mandatory waiting periods are both harmful and stupid. Scheduling appointments with ANY medical provider takes time. Anyone needing time to make a medical decision takes that time BEFORE CALLING FOR AN APPOINTMENT. Many people take more time after a consult. NONE of this requires legislation.

Happening now: The Ohio House Health Committee is hearing proponents testimony on a plot to restore Ohio's harmful 24-hour waiting period on accessing abortion care.

Next time a committee chair rejects your testimony as "not directly relevant to a bill," point to this hearing.

Staring soon: Ohio Senate Health Committee is hearing proponent testimony on Senate Bill 309, which would force doctors to distribute inaccurate, inflammatory, and confusing information to their patients in hope that they will reconsider their decision to obtain abortion care.

Abortion is normal. Abortion is safe. Abortion is healthcare. Abortion is a human right. Abortion is a blessing.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

Not enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop. ICE must be abolished.

When adoption advocates oppose a tax credit to help adopting families, then you know the bill sponsor's idea is complete garbage.

"It could not be clearer – House Bill 87 is unconstitutional at its core." When Ohioans enshrined abortion rights in our state constitution in 2023, it wasn't a suggestion! Tell your House reps to vote no on House Bill 87: abortionforward.org/hb87/

People who actually cheat families should not propose bills to misuse pregnant people for their own political agendas.

A key point from @abortionforward.bsky.social testimony: We're all in favor of state assistance for families, but House Bill 87 turns pregnant people into simple vessels whose only role is to carry a pregnancy and whose rights are superseded from the moment of conception.

Starting soon: Repro rights advocates are testifying before the Ohio House Ways and Means Committee against a plan to give tax credits for pregnancies, a horrible idea that’s ripe for abuse by the state to punish people seeking abortion care.

Journalists are being arrested under a law meant to protect abortion clinics. WTF right?

🗣️If you... 1. Have lawful immigration status: US citizen, lawful permanent resident, active TPS, or unexpired visa without an order of removal; 2. Have been detained/arrested in Ohio by ICE; 3. And were later released – we want to hear from YOU! Text 614-347-9488 or email [email protected]

Reports say ICE’s next surge may target Springfield, Ohio, home to 15,000 Haitian immigrants. Join Red Wine & Blue Tuesday, February 3, at 8:30 PM ET for a virtual event to support Springfield and demand ICE stop terrorizing communities. Sign up below and share! 🔗 go.redwine.blue/UFSIO-BS

And another thing: not one of these titles is about abortion. msmagazine.com/2026/01/12/a...

Post-Dobbs abortion access has been propped up by donor outrage and heroic work—but that fragile system is already leaving people behind.

Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.

Freezing childcare and social-services funding exposes how the administration’s “pro-family” agenda relies on pushing women out of the workforce and back into unpaid caregiving.

In 2023, Ohioans voted to establish and protect abortion rights - but that hasn't stopped Republican lawmakers from trying every trick in the book to restrict access to abortion, including reintroducing laws that were already struck down in court.