Ohio Right to Life Files Complaint with the Ohio Department of Health Regarding the Website Heyjane.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Afton Simonelli
DATE: Thursday, February 20, 2025 PHONE: 614-547-0099 ext.303
COLUMBUS, Ohio— Today, Ohio Right to Life delivered a complaint to the Ohio Department of Health regarding the website heyjane.com. This website encourages accessing abortion-inducing drugs through the mail without supervision despite Ohio’s law requiring an in-person visit with a physician.
Online access to “discreet” abortion pills reduces women’s access to necessary healthcare and physician oversight to screen for potential complications and increased risk factors. Chemical abortions fail to provide treatment for ectopic pregnancies, have high complication rates, and are dangerous the further along in the pregnancy a woman is.
In Section 2919.124 of the Ohio Revised Code, it is specified that physicians need to be physically present when furnishing abortion-inducing drugs to patients. This website provides dangerous drugs to women without any type of physical exam by a physician which is illegal in the state of Ohio.
“This website is putting Ohio women’s health at risk,” said Emma Martinez, Director of Legislative Affairs at Ohio Right to Life. “For the sake of a woman’s health, they are legally required to physically meet with a physician before being prescribed abortion pills in order to make sure there are no health complications. Hey Jane is breaking Ohio’s law and throwing women’s health to the side, only caring about their agenda to push abortions on women.”
To read a copy of the complaint click here: ohio-right-to-life-complaint-to-the-ohio-department-of-health-regarding-the-website-heyjane-com
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Founded in 1967, Ohio Right to Life, with more than 45 chapters and local affiliates, is Ohio’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement in Ohio, ORTL works through legislation and education to promote and defend innocent human life from conception to natural death.