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Megan Henry

Megan Henry

Megan Henry is a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal, a sibling site of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, and has spent the past five years reporting in Ohio on various topics including education, healthcare, business and crime. She previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network.

Ohio’s Issue 1 goes down to defeat

By: and - August 9, 2023

The Republican-led effort to make amending Ohio’s constitution more difficult has failed. As of 11:45 p.m., unofficial results for the Aug. 8 special election show voters rejected Issue 1 57% to 43%. The Associated Press called the race at 9 p.m. While precincts were still reporting late into the night and absentee ballots will continue […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — JUNE 26: Unni Shreram, a 19-year-old junior at Ohio State University from Dublin, June 26, 2023, at the Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal)

‘How are you supposed to finance that?’ Ohio college students face barriers to abortion access

By: and - July 5, 2023

Cost, distance, and lack of transportation are unique challenges college students face when it comes to abortion access and reproductive health care.