BREAKING: Ohio Supreme Court REFUSES to block Ohio’s ban on abortions after six weeks

In a big win for the unborn, the Ohio Supreme Court will not block a 2019 law passed by the state of Ohio that bans abortions after six weeks when a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Via Newsmax:

The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday declined to block the Republican-led state from enforcing a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

The state’s top court denied an emergency request by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to prevent Ohio from enforcing the 2019 law after the U.S. Supreme Court brought an end to the federal constitutional right to abortion.

The decision came amid a flurry of litigation by abortion rights groups seeking to preserve the ability of women to terminate pregnancies, after the historic ruling by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court.

The Ohio law, S.B. 23, bans abortion after fetal cardiac activity is first detected, which occurs about six weeks into pregnancies, a point at which many women do not know they are pregnant, lawyers for the clinics said.

The measure, which Republican Governor Mike DeWine signed into law, was previously blocked in the federal courts. But hours after the Supreme Court’s decision, a federal judge dissolved the injunction preventing its enforcement.

It’s about time a state does the right thing on this issue to protect the unborn. Seriously. And for it to be the top court in Ohio is just icing on the cake.

Hopefully other states like Louisiana, Utah, Kentucky, Florida and Texas will soon have their abortion laws set free from the authoritarian activism in the lower state courts.


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