The Ohio Prevention First Act




















Senator Teresa Fedor and Representative Tyronne Yates are
the sponsors of the Ohio Prevention First Act, SB176/HB293.

For more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has helped women and families prevent unintended pregnancies and plan strong, healthy families.

The Ohio Prevention First Act is a signature piece of legislation that focuses on the prevention of unintended pregnancies through comprehensive sex education for teens, including abstinence, and affordable, accessible birth control.

After having been introduced in 2006 and again in the 2007-08 legislative session, the Ohio Prevention First Act has been re-introduced in the 128th General Assembly and includes the following provisions:

  • If a school district offers any sexual health education programming, then it must be comprehensive, age-appropriate, medically-accurate, and abstinence-inclusive in order to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
  • Ensure that sexual assault victims have access to emergency contraception as well as testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases in all hospital emergency rooms.
  • Create a state teen pregnancy prevention task force that would recommend medically accurate and scientifically proven effective programs for reducing Ohio’s teen pregnancy rate.
  • Require a pharmacy to dispense any prescribed drug, device or over-the-counter medication in stock without delay or judgment.
  • Require the Ohio Department of Health to create materials to educate medical professionals and the general public about emergency contraception and to make them available on their website.
  • Forbid a health insurance company from limiting or excluding coverage for FDA-approved prescription contraception if the policy covers other prescription drugs or devices.

Senator Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo) and Rep. Tyrone Yates (D-Cincinnati) are the primary sponsors of the Ohio Prevention First Act – SB 176 and HB 293, respectively.
























Pro-prevention audience members at the 2nd hearing for the Ohio Prevention First Act!
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