{"id":283318,"date":"2023-01-16T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=283318"},"modified":"2023-01-13T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T05:18:55","slug":"ohio-ag-supreme-court-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-ag-supreme-court-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Attorney General asks Supreme Court to rescind block on heartbeat law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked the state&#8217;s Supreme Court to overturn the December 16 decision of a lower appeals court that upheld a block on the state&#8217;s heartbeat law.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-court-declines-appeal-heartbeat-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December<\/a>, the 1st District Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2023\/01\/ohio-attorney-general-dave-yost-asks-ohio-supreme-court-to-rescind-lower-courts-ruling-on-abortion-heartbeat-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied<\/a> Yost&#8217;s request that it overturn the ruling of\u00a0Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins. Jenkins <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-judge-blocks-six-week-abortion-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked<\/a> the state&#8217;s heartbeat law in October, arguing that abortion is a right under the Ohio state constitution. In denying Yost&#8217;s request, the appeals court stated that Yost had filed it prematurely and that the case should proceed through the lower court. Now, in his January 3 brief to the Supreme Court, Yost is appealing that ruling and asking the Supreme Court to take up the case, arguing that it will be stalled in the lower court system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf allowed to stand, the First District\u2019s ruling will leave the State with no way to protect legislation from egregiously wrong preliminary injunctions,\u201d\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/pdf_viewer\/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=936103.pdf&amp;subdirectory=2023-0004\\DocketItems&amp;source=DL_Clerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief<\/a>, filed by Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers, states.\u00a0\u201cTrial courts that issue such injunctions have every incentive to drag out lower-court proceedings, ensuring their orders remain in effect \u2013 and that state laws with which they disagree remain unenforceable \u2013 for as long as possible. Nothing in Ohio law requires that result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brief also notes that\u00a0the consideration of whether or not abortion is constitutionally protected is an important one.\u00a0&#8220;This case presents the question of whether the Ohio Constitution protects a right to abortion. The sooner the Court settles that question, the better,&#8221; Flowers wrote.\u00a0&#8220;By deciding whether the Ohio Constitution takes this issue from the democratic process, the court can clarify Ohio\u2019s ability to regulate abortion so as to address these competing interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s heartbeat law protects preborn children from abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually around six weeks. It passed Ohio&#8217;s General Assembly in 2019 but was blocked by a federal judge after Gov. Mike DeWine signed it. The law was reinstated following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and stayed in effect until Jenkins issued his injunction in October. As long as the law remains blocked, abortions will remain legal through 22 weeks in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-283198 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked the state&#8217;s Supreme Court to overturn the December 16 decision of a lower appeals court that upheld a block on the state&#8217;s heartbeat law. In December, the 1st District Court of Appeals denied Yost&#8217;s request that it overturn the ruling of\u00a0Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins. 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