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The legislation bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat has been detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have said they will sue.

A new study shows that the rate of abortion in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level since the mid-1970s. The survey, conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, also found a rise in the use of the abortion pill mifepristone, also known as RU-486.

Respondents say they are mostly supportive of abortion rights, though they want it restricted to three months generally. But they are also opposed to severe restrictions many Republicans are pushing.

With just months before the election and an impeachment trial underway, on Friday President Trump addressed the March for Life, an annual anti-abortion rights rally in Washington, D.C.

The initiated statute faces a challenge in the Republican-dominated legislature.

The number of abortions in Ohio last year went down for the fourth year in a row. Both sides in the debate are pleased, but have differing opinions on why.

The decision on abortion that the Supreme Court handed down Thursday was narrow. But confusion for doctors in abortion ban states about how to deal with pregnancy emergencies remains widespread.

The state's Republican-controlled House gives final legislative approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Ninety-seven percent of OB-GYNs see patients wanting an abortion, but only 14 percent of the doctors perform them, a nationwide survey of finds. Religious affiliation is one factor that has a bearing on whether a doctor will or won't provide abortions.

Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse and their allies clearly will stop at nothing to prevent Ohioans from voting in November on a constitutional amendment establishing abortion rights.