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Divided 6th Circuit Backs State of Ohio in Case Over Down Syndrome Abortion Law


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In a divisive ruling featuring six dissents, an en banc Sixth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a district court decision that blocked enforcement of an Ohio law that criminalizes abortion procedures when the physician knows that the patient’s intent to terminate a pregnancy is because the fetus was diagnosed with Down syndrome, allowing the law to stand.
The group of medical provider plaintiffs Preterm-Cleveland, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation, and Roslyn Kade, M.D. challenged the constitutionality of Ohio’s H.B. 214, “which prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion with the knowledge that the woman’s reason for aborting her pregnancy is that her fetus has Down syndrome and she does not want a child with Down syndrome,” the court explained. ....

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