A Hamilton County judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s “heartbeat” abortion ban plans to issue a second order temporarily blocking the law, according to a lawyer involved in the case.
that the so-called “heartbeat law,” officially titled Senate Bill 23, which had been on hold for three years, would go into effect immediately. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed the law, which bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
Abortion-rights advocates and providers, including Preterm Cleveland, sued shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, filing a lawsuit with the Ohio Supreme Court. But the plaintiffsLawyers in Republican Attorney General Dave Yost’s office are defending the law in court. An amendment to the Ohio Constitution that voters adopted in 2011 in response to Obamacare also offers rights that could protect abortion, Jenkins wrote.
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