A judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Ohio from enforcing its heartbeat abortion ban for 14 days amid legal actions. The state’s oldest pro-life group decried the ruling and vowed “Ohio will become abortion free.”
Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins issued a temporary 14-day stay against enforcing SB23, commonly known as the “Heartbeat Act,” saying that it “may violate the Ohio Constitution.”
In granting the temporary stay, Jenkins noted that the Ohio Constitution provides substantive and procedural due process rights under Article I Section 16.
“No great stretch is required to find that Ohio law recognizes a fundamental right to privacy, procreation, bodily integrity, and freedom of choice in health care decision making,” Jenkins wrote in the ruling (pdf)….