Judge indefinitely suspends law banning abortion in Ohio

An Ohio judge has indefinitely suspended a state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Thus, this Friday ruling extends the previous temporary suspension, which expired next week, and allows the operation to be performed up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In announcing his decision, Judge Christian Jenkins cited as an argument to protect individual liberties enshrined in the state constitution, emphasizing that abortion is “medical care.”

With legal wrangling over the case still ongoing, it is expected that the ruling will be appealed to a higher court.

miscarriage | It becomes legal in Arizona, court d’appello blocca il divieto. Also in Ohio there is a break in pregnancy. Accolti i ricorsi de Planned Parenthood https://t.co/OiEgvFNuor

– Agenzia ANSA (@Agenzia_Ansa) October 8, 2022

Since the US Supreme Court has repealed the constitutional right to abortion, US states have regulated the procedure and more than a dozen states, including Ohio itself, have passed legislation to ban abortion.

Regarding abortion bans, activist Sarah Goldman noted that it has already been “100 days (almost) since the fall of Roe and the hell of living in the world’s greatest superpower that the Supreme Court has reduced women to nothing more than the feeling of incubators across the country.”

We have already seen the closing of clinics and with it the future, life and dreams. We’ve already heard the stories of people who have turned away from Medicare. The horror continues to unfold and the future is dark, dark dark ages. 1/2

– Sam Goldman (@SamBGoldman) October 6 2022

Goldman said about 1 in 3 women have lost access to abortion care in her state.

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court published a decision to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, which recognized and legalized a woman’s constitutional right to abortion nationwide.

(With information from RT Español and Telesur)