Posted on 09/03/2015 7:39:01 AM PDT by Morgana
COLUMBUS, Ohio
The operators of two southwest Ohio abortion clinics asked a federal court on Tuesday to declare recently enacted state laws governing their operations unconstitutional.
Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio and Women's Med Group sued in U.S. District Court, targeting several provisions tucked into the state's two most recent operating budgets, signed into law by Republican Gov. John Kasich this year and in 2013.
"Such efforts are part of a deliberate strategy to severely limit access to abortion by imposing and enforcing laws and regulations that do not promote women's health or any other valid state interest," the lawsuit alleges.
The suit targets measures that require a certain category of surgical facility to get written agreements with nearby hospitals agreeing to take patients in an emergency, but that block public hospitals from entering these agreements. An additional law automatically suspends a facility's license when a requested variance from the emergency requirement is denied by the state or not acted on within 60 days.
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Kasich backs down on everything. Sure will be interesting to see if he defends the rights of the preborn and recently born babies who are being slaughtered.
So pro lifers fight back even harder. Make sure he does not back down.
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