Republican faction seeks to keep courts from interpreting Ohio’s new abortion rights amendment

Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state's constitution this week. Republican state Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear said in a news release Thursday that they'll push to have the Legislature, not the courts, make any decisions about the amendment passed Tuesday.