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What Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation means to students and faculty

Bella Hagey Reporter November 5, 2020

With Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Oct. 27, many fear losing access to abortion and birth control and seeing the legality of gay marriage overturned.Prominent Supreme Court...

HBO Max’s “Unpregnant” stars Haley Lu Richardson (right) and Barbie Ferreira (left) as the two characters leave the state of Missouri to get an abortion. 

OPINION: “Unpregnant” Movie Review

Jessica Goodwin Opinion Writer September 24, 2020

On Sept. 10, HBO Max released their newest original film, “Unpregnant.” With a title like that it was sure to turn heads and raise questions. The film directed and written by Rachel Lee Goldenberg...

Student Success Leader Jasmyn Robinson leads a small group in the Kent Talk: "The A Word." The small groups had in-depth discussions about abortion rather than the broader discussion the group had as a whole at the beginning of the talk.

Student organizations host Kent Talk event on abortion

Katia Rodriguez September 14, 2019

Abortion is a topic that has continued to increase in discussion, especially at the Ohio Statehouse. Student organizations like Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kent State and Kent State Students for Life,...

Letter to the Editor: Obscene images poorly paint abortion argument

Lailah Berry November 8, 2017

The House committee is considering an extreme and unconstitutional abortion ban. Once again, anti-abortion politicians justified the ban by using scare tactics.Unfortunately, these tactics are common and...

Bobbie Szabo

Providing access for all

Bobbie Szabo September 11, 2016

Abortion is a legal right in the United States. Women have legally been allowed to choose to have an abortion since 1973, when the Supreme Court decision Roe vs Wade declared that bans on abortions violated...

Top court hears Texas abortion case

Jim Provance, Associated Press March 7, 2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohioans on both sides of the abortion issue were focused Wednesday on the U.S. Supreme Court as it weighed Texas’ restrictions on clinics that are similar to some laws in this...

Our View: Worry about campaigns, not kitchens

February 23, 2016

At a town hall meeting Monday in Fairfax, Virginia, Ohio Gov. John Kasich told attendees about an early Ohio statehouse campaign he mentioned that “many women, who left their kitchens to go out and go...

Kasich signs Ohio bill diverting Planned Parenthood funding

Associated Press February 23, 2016

Gov. John Kasich signed legislation Sunday to strip government money from Planned Parenthood in Ohio, an expected move that came one day after the Republican presidential contender's weak performance...

Lucas Misera

Opinion: Justifying Planned Parenthood

Lucas Misera November 3, 2015

Occasionally, news breaks from the government that sticks around for a while, and I’m left wondering how we possibly could still be on that specific topic. Planned Parenthood is one of those subjects,...

Our View: Don’t defund Planned Parenthood

KS Editors October 25, 2015

The Ohio Senate passed a bill 23-10 Wednesday that would eliminate $1.3 million worth of federal and state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics.Supporters of the bill, which now heads to a vote in the...

Anti-abortion activists from the Viewers of the Word Church protest outside Planned Parenthood's Bedford Heights Health Center, which performs abortions. House Bill 294 could lead to the reproductive health organization from no longer receiving government funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings, among other services.

Ohio bill calls for defunding of abortion-performing organizations

Emily Mills and Allie Johnson September 16, 2015

Junior exercise science major Sam Anderson has been going to Planned Parenthood since she was 16 for birth control and other health services.“It would be very costly (for me to go somewhere else), and...

Anti-abortion activists propose new Ohio bill

February 12, 2015

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