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Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023 Ohio Issue 1. [1]A "heartbeat bill" that banned abortions after six weeks of gestational age that was enacted before Issue 1 was challenged in court, with the Attorney General of Ohio and other Republican leaders in Ohio defending it in court.
A fetal heartbeat bill (SB 1274) was signed into law by then-Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin in April 2012 that requires an abortion provider to offer a woman the opportunity to hear the conceptus's heartbeat before ending the pregnancy, and applies when the conceptus is at least eight weeks old. The bill took effect in November 2012.
In April 2019, the Ohio legislature passed and Governor Mike DeWine signed a "heartbeat bill" that banned abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, [5] which usually occurs about six weeks after conception, before many know they are pregnant. [23] The bill allowed exceptions for threats to the mother's life, but not for rape or incest. [5]
The so-called "heartbeat bill" was signed into law in 2019 by Gov. Mike DeWine and prevents abortions from performed once fetal cardiac activity can be defected, which typically occurs at about ...
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine admitted that the law he signed, which supporters called the "heartbeat bill," was out of step with what Ohioans wanted. The ballot initiative passed in November with ...
An Ohio judge permanently struck down the state's ban on abortion after about six weeks on Thursday and criticized its Republican attorney general for attempting to circumvent the will of Ohioans ...
So far, Ohio’s parental consent law has not been challenged in court nor targeted by Democrats, though the anti-abortion Protect Women Ohio campaign suggested it would be a casualty of Issue 1’s passage. Litigation also has not been filed to challenge Ohio’s ban on dilation and extraction, a procedure once used in the third term of pregnancy.
Jun. 29—Ohio's abortion clinics are suing to stop enforcement of the "Heartbeat Bill," which bans abortion after five or six weeks' gestation. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of ...