“It’s a huge sea-change; it would be hard to overstate how much uncertainty this brings about,” Hill said.

Jaime Miracle, deputy director of Pro-Choice Ohio, said that’s one of the organizations’ biggest concerns with the potential for impending restrictions, nationally and on the state level.

“They want to ban abortion, but how are we going to support all these folks?” Miracle said. “If we do lose abortion access, how are these legislators going to do to support families?”

Researchers with the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network, a collaborative from Ohio State University who focuses on reproductive health, also said the priority should be on care instead of restrictions.

“If Ohio policymakers want to ensure the health and well-being of their constituents, they should not ban abortion care in Ohio,” the group said in a statement. “Instead, motivated by evidence and attention to equity, they should turn their efforts to expanding access to reproductive healthcare.”

While Ohio’s general assemblies have done a lot of work to regulate abortion clinics and methods, “pregnancy resource centers” or “crisis pregnancy centers,” which promote pregnancy and do not provide abortion information, have been provided funds in sources such as the state’s latest operating budget.

Back in June, the Senate’s version of the state budget allocated $3 million per year to the Parenting and Pregnancy Program conducted by the state, and funded using federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families monies.

As the House joined in on the budget, they also agreed to “transfer agreements” for ambulatory surgical facilities – what abortion clinics are considered when they conduct surgical abortions – that require a physician to practice within 25 miles of a facility.

Reproductive rights advocates heavily criticized the move, calling into question the need for such a requirement, and saying it limited health care access in certain areas of the state.

Last week, Gov. Mike DeWine added to the Parenting and Pregnancy Program funds with an executive order that pushed $1.5 million more in TANF funds to the program’s organizations. According to the governor’s press release on the executive order, the program provides “services for pregnant women and parents, or other relatives caring for children, that promote the goals of the TANF program as well as childbirth, parenting and alternatives to abortion.”