Ohio Abortion Doctors Lack Standing to Fight Ban, State Says (1)

There isn’t evidence in an Ohio abortion case to show that abortion-providing doctors develop close enough relationships to their patients to warrant them suing the state over its plan to ban the procedure after six weeks of gestation, an attorney for Ohio told the state Supreme Court Wednesday.

Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers told the justices during oral arguments in Columbus that “what you see here is only evidence of transactional, episodic interactions in which the patient meets with the plaintiff, the plaintiff provides the services.

“And they may never see each other again,” he continued.

The statement, which went to ...