Ohio Supreme Court to review legal questions on abortion, not whether Constitution protects it

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The Ohio Supreme Court agreed to review a couple of legal questions about whether abortion clinics can challenge the state's ban on most abortions, but not the underlying question of whether the Ohio Constitution creates a right to abortion.

In a 4-3 decision, justices on Tuesday decided to review two legal questions:

Whether the Ohio attorney general can appeal orders preliminarily blocking state laws.

Whether abortion clinics can challenge the state’s 2019 ban on most abortions.

The Ohio Supreme Court will not review whether the Ohio Constitution creates a right to abortion. Three Republican justices, Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, Justice Pat DeWine and sitting Judge Matthew Byrne, wanted the court to review that issue, too. The three Democratic justices dissented.

At issue is a 2019 Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions after cardiac activity is detected. That law took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

For several months, Ohioans' access to abortion was dramatically reduced. Nearly 400 Ohioans, including a 10-year-old girl, traveled out of state to get an abortion between June and September when a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge put the law on hold.

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"Whether the Ohio attorney general can appeal orders preliminarily blocking state laws."