About Us

In the wake of the Dobbs decision and then followed by Ohio’s near-total statewide abortion ban, two doctors connected on Facebook to discuss the impact on their patients. Days later, they wrote and circulated a letter to their colleagues. In less than one week, over 1,000 doctors signed the letter which was published in the Columbus Dispatch under the banner of a newly formed organization: Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights (OPRR). 

Since then, over 4,000 doctors and healthcare professionals have joined us in the fight to keep the government and politicians out of Ohioans’ reproductive healthcare decisions. OPRR evolved from this group of concerned physicians into a broad-based grassroots coalition Protect Choice Ohio, together training thousands of volunteers who succeeded in gathering the signatures needed to place the Reproductive Freedom Amendment on the November 2023 general election ballot.

After seeing the energy behind our movement, anti-abortion extremists spent over $20 million dollars to put on a special election trying to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments like ours. Ohioans overwhelmingly voted against this obvious attempt to silence their voices and to block the Reproductive Freedom Amendment from passing.

After Ohioans defeated the attempt to weaken their voice, extremists tried to stop our Amendment in every way possible. Extremists added medically inaccurate and stigmatizing language like “unborn child” to the wording of the proposed Amendment as it appeared on the ballot. Extremists spent millions of dollars to spread lies to Ohioans about what the Amendment would do. Extremists even purged registered Ohioans from the voter rolls. None of these efforts worked–Ohioans overcame these hurdles at every step because Ohio believes in putting patients and families, not the government, in charge of personal medical decisions.