Abortion regulations among changes in $61.7B Ohio budget

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Abortion providers in Ohio would have to inform pregnant women in writing about the presence of a fetal heartbeat before the procedure under a last-minute change slipped into the $61.7 billion, two-year state budget on Tuesday evening.

The amendment also requiring providers to say, to the best of their knowledge, the statistical probability of bringing the fetus to term was added by a Republican-dominated, six-member legislative committee.