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Carter Sherman in Cleveland, Ohio

Abortion providers brace themselves ahead of Ohio vote: ‘It’s just terrifying’

A person holds a sign urging a vote for a constitutional amendment seeking to protect abortion rights in Ohio, on 2 November.
A person holds a sign urging a vote for a constitutional amendment seeking to protect abortion rights in Ohio, on 2 November. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

When Annie Boyle picked up the phone, the woman at the other end of the line wanted to know: what’s going on with Ohio’s abortion referendum?

As a patient advocate at Preterm, a sprawling abortion clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Boyle is used to confusion over Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect shortly after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, but is now on hold. “I’m old, I don’t need an abortion,” the woman on the phone said, but she sounded disturbed by the ban.

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