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Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 ruled there is no federal constitutional right to abortion, states have been left to decide the issue. More than a dozen have made abortion illegal in nearly every circumstance, while the procedure is legal in 25 states up to at least 22 weeks. In several states, bans or restrictions on abortion are blocked while courts review the laws. Ohio is among them.
The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in a case regarding the indefinitely paused six-week abortion ban as it also decides whether to intervene in the November abortion ballot initiative process.
The Ohio Supreme Court has heard from a wide variety of medical groups and an association for social workers, all of whom support a continued injunction on Ohio’s six-week abortion ban law.