Posted on 10/24/2024 4:39:39 PM PDT by Coronal
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 who voted to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution.
Judge Christian Jenkins of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in Cincinnati said, opens new tab the Republican-backed 2019 state law would interfere with women's ability to receive abortions and discourage doctors from performing them, in violation of a constitutional amendment approved by voters last year.
The office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, acknowledged that the ban itself could not stand in light of the ballot initiative, but had argued that 14 other provisions of the state law should be upheld.
Those included requirements to have doctors check for fetal heartbeats before performing abortions, inform patients seeking abortions when their fetuses are viable, and have patients wait 24 hours after seeing a doctor before undergoing an abortion.
Jenkins said those provisions were unconstitutional because the ballot measure's broad wording prohibits any burden on the ability to exercise the right to have an abortion.
He noted that when the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overruled its landmark Roe v. Wade precedent that had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide, it said it was returning the issue of abortion to individual states and that "women are not without electoral or political power."
"Ohio's Attorney General evidently didn't get the memo," wrote Jenkins, a Democrat who was elected to his post in 2021. "Unlike the Ohio Attorney General, this court will uphold the Ohio Constitution's protection of abortion rights."
Bethany McCorkle, a spokeswoman for Yost, said the attorney general has 30 days to review the "very long, complicated decision" and decide whether to appeal.
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“ enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution.”
Enshrine?
Talk about loaded manipulative language.
Oddly honest in a way in that abortion is a religion to these people.
Those rights which are given by men can be taken away by men again. That abortion amendment can be revoked the same as it was supposedly voted in. We’ll see if the judge shares the same affection for the “will of the Ohioans” then.
Who named this clown “Christian”?
It is but abortion is a state’s purview now. If the people approved an amendment to their constitution that’s pretty much it. It sucks but it keeps the fed out of it
What does the amendment say?
Way back when, feminazis claimed that men were trying to control women’s bodies by being against abortion, and said that if men could get pregnant they would make abortion a sacrament. Now they are saying men can get pregnant, and they themselves are treating abortion as a sacrament. What a strange time in the world.
Yost is our next Gov if Ramaswamy doesn’t run
Why does it seem like it’s part of some big joke who is named Chritian or Joy, etc?
The last I heard the USSC gave power back to the states. Not to corrupt political judges.
And the people of Ohio enacted an amendment to their state’s constitution establishing a right to abortion. The judge ruled that the statute violated that constitutional provision, which is within a judge’s purview.
Too bad they don't say the same thing about the 2nd Amendment. You know, that pesky- the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The devil is very shrewd. Some of these judges are truly EVIL.
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