New Ohio legislation that would require doctors to read a legal statement before medication abortions telling patients they can sue them could create a new barrier to constitutionally protected abortion care, experts say.
Attorneys representing the state of Ohio and women’s health clinics made oral arguments Tuesday over whether other provisions in the state’s 2019 six-week abortion ban law can be maintained, even though the ban itself has been struck down.
Changes will be made to the way abortions are reported in Ohio, according to the state operating budget the legislature passed last week. Meanwhile, infant and maternal funding are seeing reductions compared to previous versions of the budget.
Pro-abortion rights advocates are taking a proposed total abortion ban in Ohio to heart. Noting the celebration of Juneteenth and Black emancipation, they say the use of the 14th Amendment to try to exert state control over individual freedom and bodily autonomy is vile.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office does not plan to fight a court ruling overturning the six-week abortion ban, but he wants an appellate court to roll back rulings that overturned other parts of the same law.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s appeal of a decision to strike down the state’s six-week abortion ban is working its way through the system, now in the hands of the First District Court of Appeals.
The battle to change Ohio laws surrounding abortion regulations is still broiling, even as a new presidency brings concerns on a federal level as to where abortion rights may stand in the coming years.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost will appeal a Hamilton County court’s decision to strike down the state’s six-week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest that was put into effect for several months after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
A Hamilton County judge has permanently overturned Ohio’s six-week abortion ban that had been tied up in court since its inception in 2019, but was put into effect for several months after Roe. v. Wade was overturned.
Ohio’s most recent official abortion count found an increase between 2022 and 2023, and also found the majority of abortions are still happening before nine weeks gestation.
An Ohio law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before abortion services will not be enforced as a lawsuit seeking to eliminate the law entirely sees its way through court, a judge ruled on Friday.
Attorneys challenging Ohio’s 24-hour abortion waiting period and minimum in-person visit regulations made their arguments Friday as to why enforcement of the laws should be paused as they fight to get them eliminated entirely.
New data studying state funding for anti-abortion centers showed Ohio provided more than $22 million to groups in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturned national abortion rights.
