Letter to the editor: Protect abortion rights as women's health care

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Regarding the Jan. 23 Canton Repository print article, ''Harris rallies for abortion rights,'' I strongly agree with Vice President Kamala Harris and am so proud to see her and President Joe Biden be so supportive of reproductive health care.

Abortion care is an essential health care service and is still legal in Ohio. Even more encouraging is the recent FDA approval of mifepristone being sold nationally in local pharmacies to help people become unpregnant. It's one of many important steps to get around abortion restrictions like requiring a doctor visit, and instead utilizing an online telehealth visit with a doctor.

My newest concern is with the recent firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Peoria, Illinois, two days after the governor signed an abortion rights bill into law. Anti-choice domestic terrorists must be charged, prosecuted, and jailed, to end the constant harassment and crimes targeting abortion providers who help pregnant people from women to transgender men.

Please support Ohio abortion providers and advocates like Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, or Pro-Choice Ohio, as abortion care is a protected right, and must be defended in every state.

Nancy Dollard, Lake Township

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