Tuesday, June 29, 12noon, Ohio Statehouse

Every Ohioan, regardless of where we are from, what we look like, or where we live, deserves the opportunity to live in healthy, safe communities that support us and allow us to thrive. Ohio’s unaccountable extremist politicians have crafted the state budget with the intent to help the wealthiest Ohioans while harming the rest of us, especially Ohioans who are Black, brown, transgender, and gender non-conforming, those who live in rural areas, have low incomes, and are in need of abortion care.

A state budget reflects what the state values — and Ohio conservatives have made it clear that they do not value Ohioans with this proposed budget. By using the budget to attack our rights and our access to health care, the Republican majority has decided to use the budget to prioritize and uplift programs that benefit themselves and harm our communities. These corrupt politicians are not representative of us or our communities’ needs. They don’t reflect Ohio. They know that when we come together, we’re powerful. Together, we have the power to demand that leaders do right by all Ohioans.

Ohio extremists are creating the state’s budget in quiet, quick, backroom deals. They waited until public comment on the budget was over to add amendments that use the budget as a trojan horse to take away reproductive health care and undercut evidence-based, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education.

Hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, Equality Ohio, Women Have Options Ohio, Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and Ohio Women’s Alliance.