Judge Blocks Ohio Abortion Law Mandating Waiting Period (1)

An Ohio judge on Friday blocked the state from enforcing several abortion-related statutes, including one requiring a waiting period of at least a day before obtaining the procedure, pending a lawsuit challenging their constitutionality.

The lawsuit is based on a recently-passed constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights. The laws likely can’t stand after the amendment went into effect “because there is no evidence or support to find that they are the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care,” Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David C. Young wrote in his preliminary ...