Tag Archives: State: Ohio

Rasmussen Reports: A new telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds Obama earning 45% support to Romney’s 41%.

IrishCentral: The American Civil Liberties Union has insisted on the right of political candidates of all kinds to walk in the Dublin Ohio St.Patrick’s Day parade.

Religion Clause Blog: In re Deliverance Christian Church, 2011 Bankr. LEXIS 5219 (ND OH, Dec. 1, 2011), involves the issue of how much information a church in bankruptcy must furnish to a bank that is a secured creditor of the church.

AUL: Americans United for Life (AUL) filed a brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives – including Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn—supporting Ohio’s commonsense regulation of the dangerous abortion-inducing drug RU-486.

FOX19 News: “He goes, ‘The reason we don’t sell it to men is because they are using it for rape victims,’” said Melbourne.

The Republic: An Ohio anti-abortion group has refiled paperwork with the state in its effort to amend the Ohio Constitution to declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: House Bill 79, the third anti-abortion bill Kasich has signed this year, prevents health insurance plans available through the new federal health care law from paying for abortions, unless the woman’s life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Ironton Tribune: Coal Grove Mayor Larry McDaniel and his wife, Vickie, had just finished checking the lights for the elaborate Christmas display at Paul Porter Park Saturday evening, when they got a phone call, they didn’t want to hear. “We hadn’t been home a half-hour and some people had been in the park and told us Baby Jesus wasn’t there,” Vickie McDaniel said.

The Washington Post: A boy removed from his mother’s custody over health concerns when his weight ballooned to more than 200 pounds will be taken from foster care and placed in the custody of an uncle, a judge ruled Wednesday.

The Washington Post: The leader of the Ohio Senate said Wednesday that he’s suspending hearings on a bill that would ban abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat, saying amendments proposed by supporters have created confusion.

Lowe was charged with one count of sexual battery for engaging in sexual conduct by means of sexual intercourse with his 22-year-old stepdaughter, in violation of Ohio Rev. Code § 2907.03(A)(5) . . .

NYTimes.com: A widening and emotional rift over legal tactics has split the anti-abortion movement, with its longtime leaders facing a Tea Party-like insurrection from many grass-roots activists who are impatient with the pace of change.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The effort, while still in the preliminary stages, has in-vitro fertilization doctors and abortion-rights groups digging in for a fig

An eight-year-old Ohio boy who weighs more than 200 pounds was taken from his family last month and placed in foster care after social workers said his mother was not doing enough to control his weight, The Plain Dealer reported.

NorthWestOhio.com: The holiday season is starting off on a sour note for one Toledo church.

USA Today: The FBI arrested seven Ohio men on federal hate crime charges in connection with a bizarre series of Amish hair-cutting attacks, the Associated Press reports.

Columbus Dispatch: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, now representing the youth and his mother, announced today it is giving the school district an opportunity to discuss changes to prevent bullying of students before it goes to court.

The Chillicothe Gazette: The American Civil Liberties Union announced Monday it would seek legal action against Union-Scioto Local Schools if district officials choose not to meet with the ACLU in the wake of an alleged attack Oct. 17 on an openly gay student.

The Washington Post: Ohioans voted Tuesday to repeal a Republican-backed law that restricted collective bargaining for public workers, while Mississippi voters blocked an amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person.

Voters in Ohio have approved a ballot measure intended to keep government from requiring Ohioans to participate in any health care system.

TheHill.com: Unions are feeling confident heading into a crucial vote next Tuesday on an Ohio state referendum dealing with collective bargaining rights.

LifeNews.com: Governor John Kasich of Ohio has signed into law a bill meant to strengthen the parental consent law in place that prohibits teens from getting an abortion without their parents’ consent is moving along in the legislative process.

Religion Clause Blog reports on developments in Ally v. City of Youngstown.

LifeNews.com: An abortion practitioner based in Indiana is under investigation by state officials for hiding the fact that he does abortions in the Hoosier State on medical forms filed with Ohio officials.

Fox News: Supporters admit that a victory for “Issue 3” would be mostly symbolic – but powerfully so. “Sometimes symbols matter,” said Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich. “The problem with Obamacare is you stick all these people on, and you have no way to pay for it.”

UPI.com: Supporters of a petition drive to define life as beginning at conception say they’ll appeal a decision by Ohio’s attorney general rejecting it.

Calendar listings Oct. 2026 | Cleveland Sun News | cleveland.com: Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 28455 Center Ridge Road, Westlake. Westlake 912 Meeting. Learn about Alliance Defense Fund’s passion and courage to stand up for America’s freedom. An ADF attorney will speak. 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 5. RSVP to (440) 937-6262.

AP on Findlaw: A judge has upheld the firing of a central Ohio public school science teacher accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and of keeping a Bible on his desk.

LifeNews.com: The Ohio health department has updated an arrangement that allows late-term abortion practitioner Martin Haskell to continue doing abortions without following state law requiring him to have a transfer agreement at a local hospital.

The Chillicothe Gazette | chillicothegazette.com: Ohio House Bill 136, which was approved Sept. 22 by the House’s Education Committee, would expand the state’s private school voucher program to any student in any district whose family makes less than $95,000.

The Washington Post: The Supreme Court has turned away another appeal from an Ohio judge who wanted to display a poster containing the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

News from The Associated Press: Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio prison system is denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while at the same time providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners . . .

NECN.com: The number of abortions reported in Ohio has decreased for a 10th straight year, dropping to the lowest level since record-keeping started in 1976, according to new data from the state Department of Health.

News-Herald.com: Legislation that revises the process of judicial bypass under Ohio’s Parental Consent for Abortion law passed the Ohio Senate. The measure, House Bill 63 . . .

Houston Chronicle: The Ohio Senate has approved a bill that contains new requirements before a minor can be allowed to have an abortion without her parents agreeing to it.

LifeNews.com: In Ohio, a lawsuit in which Planned Parenthood was recently found to have violated an Ohio informed consent law has been “resolved and dismissed,” according to the Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney who filed the suit. ADF-allied attorney Brian Hurley represents the parents of a girl who, at age 14, was brought to a Planned Parenthood clinic for an abortion by the 22-year-old soccer coach who impregnated her.

Reuters: Anti-abortion activists plan a rally at the Ohio statehouse on Tuesday to support passage of what would be the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country — a bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Columbus Local News: After the Board of Zoning and Appeals rejected that application and council upheld BZAP’s ruling, Tree of Life filed suit in January, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund.

OneNewsNow.com: A three-judge panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Ohio law that regulates sexually-oriented businesses.

Toledo Blade: How long can a computer hard drive be left behind before it is considered abandoned and subject to search by police without a warrant? That was the question before the Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday as it weighed the child rape, child pornography, and other convictions of Dennis Gould, 47 . . . | Hat tip: How Appealing for providing a link to the documents, summary of the case, and video of the arguments.

Houston Chronicle: The anti-abortion group Ohio Right to Life is throwing its support behind a ballot issue that seeks to keep the government from requiring people to buy health insurance.

Houston Chronicle: An Ohio group is gathering signatures in an effort to add an abortion ban to the state’s constitution. Personhood Ohio wants to put the issue before voters in 2012.

AP: An Ohio woman who gave birth to a Michigan woman’s baby after a fertility clinic mix-up says she and her husband are new parents again.

Dayton Daily News: The debate over bringing creationism into Springboro classrooms ended after a shift in viewpoint by the school board member who started the discussion, which prompted a national response, including threats of legal action.

The Washington Post: In a unanimous decision Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a liberal policy group’s lawsuit challenging certification of the issue, to be called the Health Care Freedom Amendment, on the grounds petitions carrying 69,000 signatures were flawed. | Rothenberg v. Husted, Slip Op. No. 2011-Ohio-4003

Dayton Daily News: The Springboro school board member who raised the prospect of the district teaching creationism said this week she now wants parents of students in public schools to have options if they want their children to learn about theories like intelligent design.

LifeSiteNews.com: – On Monday, an Obama-nominated federal judge ruled that former Ohio Congressman Steve Driehaus may proceed with his defamation suit against a prominent pro-life group. Driehaus claims the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List contributed to his 2010 election cycle defeat to Republican Steve Chabot.

ACLJ: We filed our Petition for Writ of Certiorari at the high Court a couple of months ago. Now, we have filed a reply brief arguing that the ACLU has no legal standing to bring a challenge against an Ohio courtroom display containing the Ten Commandments. An appeals court declared unconstitutional a poster displayed by Judge James DeWeese that included the Ten Commandments as part of an exhibit on legal philosophy.

OneNewsNow.com: The problem, though, is rather than allowing these fliers to be sent home with the students, as they had done in the past, they’ve now restricted them all to placing them in the front office to be taken home — which is very rarely visited by students, obviously, unless they’re in trouble,” says Cortman.

AP: Voters will get the chance to decide whether Ohio can opt out of the national health care overhaul after the state’s top election official said Tuesday that opponents of the federal law have enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Nathan A. Cherry at the Engage Family Blog: In a stunning victory for the family the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that half of a one-time lesbian duo is not entitled to custody of the other woman’s child.

OneNewsNow.com: ADF attorney Jonath[a]n Scruggs says the good news is that the city reversed itself after receiving a demand letter from the Christian legal group. “Christians shouldn’t be silenced and threatened with arrest for attempting to express their beliefs at a free public event on public property,” says the attorney. “The city did the right thing by directing police officers to stop restricting constitutionally protected expression.”

AP: “Ohio voters will get to decide in November whether to repeal the state’s new collective bargaining law . . . ”

LifeNews: In April, a lawsuit the family brought against Planned Parenthood was settled and Alliance Defense Fund attorney Brian Hurley, who represented the parents of the girl, commented on the case. “The health and safety of young girls is far more important than Planned Parenthood’s desire to make money on an abortion,” said ADF Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden. “This lawsuit was yet another clear demonstration of Planned Parenthood’s ongoing effort to put its profit margin ahead of the true needs of young women. If they truly cared about the girls who enter their doors, they would not be ignoring Ohio law and allowing statutory rape to occur so they can make money killing a baby. They also wouldn’t be trying so desperately to keep all of their records secret.”

However, rather than allow the religious fliers to be sent home with students as ADF specifically requested, the board chose to no longer allow any outside community groups to distribute fliers in classrooms.

LifeNews.com: In Ohio, a woman can legally have an abortion up to and through her ninth month of pregnancy. With the passage of H.B. 78 and the ultimate signature by Kasich, babies who can live outside of their mother’s womb will no longer be subject to death via an abortion.

LifeSiteNews.com: The Ohio Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would ban most abortions in the state once the unborn child has reached the age of viability. The Senate voted 22-7 to pass the House’s ban on abortions after 20 weeks gestation, the same day that the Senate Health Committee approved it.

LifeNews.com: The Ohio legislature today signed off on a bill banning late-term abortions in the Buckeye State and now it heads to pro-life Gov. John Kasich for his signature. H.B. 78, the Late-Term Abortion Ban, passed by a 64 to 32 vote in the House late last month and the Senate approved it today.

LifeNews.com: A Catholic bishop in Ohio says his “misgivings” about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation over its ties to the Planned Parenthood abortion business make it so he is suggesting that Catholics not support the organization

Liberty Counsel: Today the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld lower court rulings that a biological mother, Kelly Mullen, who had allowed her same-sex partner, Michele Hobbs, to “coparent” Mullen’s daughter while the two women were in a relationship, did not permanently give up her right to exclusive custody of the child. The court ruled that it was a revocable relationship and did not create a permanent shared custody agreement with the partner.

ADF letter sparks City of Akron to allow Christian man, his family to share faith on public sidewalks during fireworks display at public park

WSJ.com: School may be out for the summer, but school choice is in, as states across the nation have moved to expand education opportunities for disadvantaged kids. This year is shaping up as the best for reformers in a very long time.

American Federation for Children: Two of Ohio’s existing school choice offerings will be significantly expanded and the state will become the first in the country with four different school voucher programs after Gov. John Kasich today signed into law a state budget that considerably increases the number of educational options available to Buckeye State families.

Religion Clause: A petition for certiorari (full text) was filed yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in DeWeese v. ACLU of Ohio Foundation, Inc. . . . | ACLJ press release

Kentucky.com: A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law for taking his pregnant girlfriend to an abortion clinic at gunpoint faces 20 years in prison when a judge sentences him Thursday.

LifeNews.com: The Ohio state Senate today approved two amendments requested by a statewide pro-life organization seeking to protect Buckeye State residents from having to fork out taxpayer funds to pay for abortions.

AP: : Ohio senators consider abortion changes bortions in Ohio would be banned at most publicly funded hospitals, clinics and other facilities under a proposal Senate Republicans are considering putting in the state budget.

ProLifeBlogs: A first-in-the-nation law that restricts the abortion industry’s use of abortion-inducing RU-486 survived another round this week in a case that began 7 years ago. A federal district court in Ohio ruled that the law was “not vague” but …

Bloomberg Business Week: In the months before Justice David T. Prosser Jr. and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg faced off in Wisconsin’s Apr. 5 Supreme Court election, unidentified contributors poured $4.4 million into the race—almost six times as much as the candidates spent on the campaign.

LifeSiteNews: Ohio’s “Heartbeat Bill,” which would ban abortion from the moment of a detectable fetal heartbeat, is gaining support from U.S. presidential hopefuls as it advances through the State legislature.

The Hill: On Friday, SBA answered Driehaus’s complaint and filed a separate brief in Ohio federal court seeking to overturn the state’s “false statement” law. The group says it’s buoyed by a recent decision by the Eighth Circuit Court that overturned a similar law in Minnesota.

ADF attorney Steve Aden appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss this: Raped girl’s lawsuit against Planned Parenthood comes to a close. | MP3 audio 13:57 mins

Judge James Gwin ruled that Hutchinson’s claim falls under the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, a decision that her lawyer described as far-reaching and unprecedented.

Education News: Critics are protesting Ohio Governor John Kasich’s plan toexpand scholarships for students wanting to attend private schools at the same time as he’s cutting $1.8 billion in public school funding, Cincinnati.com reports.

WMFD.com: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sent a letter to school superintendents around the state Thursday, urging them to adopt proactive bullying prevention plans. | ACLU Press Release | ACLU Letter