March 30, 2026
Pro-life legislators aren’t backing down in the fight for LIFE, even after a horrible pro-abortion amendment to Ohio’s constitution was passed in a ballot initiative in 2023, despite the tireless work of Students for Life Action (SFLAction) and other pro-lifers. Rather than concede defeat, these warriors for LIFE are doing what they can to save babies and protect women within the current confines of Ohio law.
House Bill 783 (HB783) requires mothers be provided information on Chemical Abortion Pill Reversal before being given mifepristone, the first drug in the two-drug chemical abortion procedure. Abortion Pill Reversal (taken within 72 hours of taking mifepristone) works by outperforming mifepristone, supplying the mother’s body with enough progesterone to effectively reverse the effects of mifepristone, a progesterone blocker. Progesterone is essential to starting and maintaining pregnancy, and progesterone treatment is regularly used to prevent recurring miscarriage and premature birth.
“We’ve consulted with doctors who have been behind promoting this for a number of years, actually,” Rep. Newman told Ohio Capital Journal.
HB783, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Gross and Rep. Johnathan Newman, also requires information on how to access and use Chemical Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, as well as the phone number for a state-funded 24/7 hotline to answer questions about Chemical Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, be made available on the Ohio Department of Health website.
Not only does HB783 provide mothers with life-saving information for their preborn babies that can be used in cases of coercion or abortion regret, but it also exposes the life of so-called “pro-choice” activists. If pro-abortion activists were truly “pro-choice” as they claim, they would have no problem supporting this bill, which provides mothers with another chance as choosing Life.
“This bill is about giving women full, informed choices, consent, not limiting them,” Rep. Gross told Ohio Capital Journal.
Another bill, House Bill 347 (HB347), aims to ensure a mandatory 24-hour waiting period between when a mother pursues abortion and the time the abortion is committed. A previously passed law that created a 24-hour waiting period has been put on hold by Franklin County Court, but pro-life legislators aren’t backing down. The passage of HB347 would reinstate the waiting period until such time as it too is put on hold due to legal challenges or one of the two legislations is upheld.
Rep. Josh Williams, a primary sponsor of HB347 along with Rep. Mike Odioso, told The Statehouse News Bureau that the State Constitution’s amendment gives the state power to regulate safety, which HB437 does.
“I’m tired of women being lied to about abortion,” hair of the House Pro-Life Caucus Rep. Melanie Miller, a co-sponsor of the bill, told The Statehouse News Bureau. “You cannot claim to trust women and claim to be serving women and helping women while also withholding critical facts.”
SFLAction commends these pro-life legislators for refusing to back down in their efforts to protect mothers and their children from Big Abortion and their activist cronies.
We are calling on the legislators and Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio to pass HB783, HB347, and more pro-life legislation to protect the preborn babies and women of Ohio, and to not give up the fight for LIFE until Ohio’s Constitution is made right again, and abortion is made illegal and unthinkable in the Buckeye State.