An abortion clinic is ready to shut its doorways quickly whereas girls continued to outpace males in new voter registrations in Ohio. Democrats additionally took some warmth for criticizing the Biden administration’s scholar mortgage forgiveness plan.
We break down what all of it means on this week’s episode of Ohio Politics Defined.
A podcast from the USA TODAY Community Ohio Bureau the place we catch you up on the state’s political information in quarter-hour or much less. This week, host Anna Staver was joined by reporter Jessie Balmert.
1) Abortion clinic to shut
The one abortion clinic in Dayton introduced plans to close in mid-September.
Girls’s Medical Middle operates two clinics, one in Dayton and one in Indianapolis. Each areas will shut except authorized interventions reverse state legal guidelines that went into impact this summer season after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom ended federal protections for abortions.
“We’re going to see as many individuals and do as a lot for these individuals as we will till we shut down,’’ Dr. Jeanne Corwin told the Associated Press.
However the clinic not has sufficient sufferers to remain open. Ohio’s regulation bans abortions as soon as fetal cardiac exercise is detected, which is about 4 weeks after conception.
2) Voter registration after Roe
Two completely different analyses of Ohio’s voter registration because the overturning of Roe v. Wade confirmed women outpacing men.
TargetSmart, a Democratic knowledge firm, put feminine registrations 11 proportion factors forward of males whereas the New York Occasions estimated them to be about 6%. And Democratic teams massive and small reported influxes of volunteers, particularly amongst suburban girls.
Republicans say it will not change the end result of statewide elections in November, however Democrats see new paths to victory in a post-Roe world.
3) Scholar mortgage reversals?
Tim Ryan and Nan Whaley, two Democrats working for statewide workplace, took some warmth this week from each events for showing to flip flop of their assist for student loan forgiveness.
“This coverage just isn’t truthful to the hundreds of Ohioans who made the choice to not attend faculty due to the associated fee or for individuals who have already paid off their loans,” Whaley mentioned in an announcement Monday.
However in December 2020 she signed a letter written by fellow mayors that requested incoming President Joe Biden to increase scholar mortgage forgiveness.
A spokesperson for Whaley’s gubernatorial marketing campaign mentioned the previous Dayton mayor has all the time been cautious of scholar mortgage forgiveness, and she or he signed that 2020 letter as a result of it additionally included insurance policies to assist working households.
4) Yard oil wells
Ohio was as soon as the middle of oil and gasoline exploration in America. As we speak, the Buckeye State has greater than 250,000 oil wells drilled beneath the bottom and about 40% of them are probably deserted.
These orphan wells (these with out house owners) are the state’s accountability to seek out and correctly plug earlier than they leak or injury close by waterways. It is a massive job, and the Ohio Division of Pure Sources is simply beginning to ramp up its search.
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