The ACLU of Ohio announced today that it will file a lawsuit challenging a provision in House Bill 68, specifically the ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.

If allowed to go into effect as written, the rules impose constraints on care for all transgender people - minors and adults alike - with no grounding in existing medical science.

This afternoon, the Ohio House voted to override Governor DeWine’s veto of HB 68, a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18.

Following his veto of Ohio House Bill 68, a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18, Governor Mike DeWine issued an executive order and proposed restrictions on care for transgender people that, in practice. The ACLU and the ACLU of Ohio condemned the proposal.

The League of Women Voters of Ohio and voter Jennifer Kucera filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a provision in House Bill 458 that impacts how voters who have disabilities can cast absentee ballots.

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the law firm WilmerHale filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit challenging the six-week abortion ban, in light of Issue 1’s passage.

Today, Ohioans voted overwhelmingly to enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution by passing The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety amendment.

Today the ACLU of Ohio, the American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP filed objections to the recent iteration of state House and Senate districts adopted unanimously by all members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission on September 26.