An Ohio judge blocked laws that state regulators could use to discipline physician assistants, certified nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives if they perform medication abortions.
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway in 2024 preliminarily blocked laws that barred “advanced practice clinicians” from performing non-surgical abortions. However, the clinics and medical personnel who sued Ohio officials over that and a telemedicine abortion ban feared the state Board of Nursing could use separate laws to penalize advanced clinicians if they prescribed medication to induce an abortion.
Hatheway said Tuesday that those laws also couldn’t stand while the lawsuit, first filed ...
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