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With the 2025 session winding down, the Ohio legislature saw significant activity this week on several bills that directly affect parents, students, churches, and families. Here’s a quick look at what moved, why it matters, and what comes next.

Legalized just in 2023, Ohio's sports gambling has been widely popular and broadly fraught with disaster from the beginning.

What this scandal underscores is exactly what we’ve warned for years: Legalized sports betting is not a harmless pastime. When individual player actions serve as the basis for wagers, the door opens to manipulation, corruption, and the betrayal of trust in sport and society. This is a wake‑up call that every effort to normalize gambling weakens moral and cultural goods like fair competition, integrity, and community wellbeing.

A Toledo man held his pregnant girlfriend down while she was sleeping to force crushed abortion pills down her throat. According to an investigation by the State Medical Board of Ohio, the Toledo man, Hassan-James Abbas, a doctor in Toledo, bought abortion pills online using his estranged wife’s name and crushed them into a powder, which he forced the victim to orally ingest while pinning her down. The unborn child did not survive.