{"id":299423,"date":"2023-09-27T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299423"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T20:24:16","slug":"ohio-supreme-court-weigh-heartbeat-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-supreme-court-weigh-heartbeat-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Supreme Court to weigh law protecting preborn humans with detectable heartbeats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ohio Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments<\/a> on the state’s law protecting preborn children from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected \u2014 usually at about six weeks gestation.<\/p>\n

In 2019, the law was initially passed, only for a federal court judge to block it. When Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned last summer, it was briefly reinstated, only for Judge Christian Jenkins to issue an indefinite injunction<\/a> against it in October. \u201cAbortion is safe health care to which Ohioans have a right,\u201d he wrote<\/a>, adding, \u201cIt is simply wrong to state, as many do, that a right does not exist because it is not specifically listed in the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorney General Dave Yost requested that the 1st District Court of Appeals overturn the ruling; when they declined<\/a>, he asked the state Supreme Court to step in. They agreed to consider two legal issues: Jenkins\u2019 order blocking the heartbeat law, and whether or not abortion facilities have legal standing to challenge the law on behalf of their patients.<\/p>\n