Ohio’s “heartbeat ban” banning abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected has been temporarily blocked by a judge who ruled the state Constitution includes a “fundamental right to abortion.”
The order will be in effect for 14 days.
The case, brought by abortion providers in America’s seventh most populous state, was brought in a trial court in Hamilton County (Cincinnati) after the Ohio Supreme Court sat on an emergency petition from providers for weeks without acting.
“No great stretch is required to find that Ohio law recognizes a fundamental right to privacy, procreation, bodily integrity and freedom of choice in ...
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