BREAKING: Judge temporarily blocks Ohio ban on abortion after first detectable heartbeat, predicts it will be found unconstitutional.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge temporarily blocked an Ohio law Wednesday that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, allowing clinics to continue to provide the procedure as a legal faceoff continues.
Barrett said Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics represented by the American Civil Liberties Union that sued to stop the law “are certain to succeed on the merits of their claim that is unconstitutional on its face.”Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the Ohio law in April, after predecessor John Kasich, a fellow Republican, twice vetoed it.
Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio, said in an emailed statement the decision “upheld the clear law: women in Ohio have the constitutional right to make this deeply personal decision about their own bodies without interference from the state.”
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