Relying on a new constitutional amendment, Planned Parenthood expands its suit against restrictive abortion laws.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Planned Parenthood this week broadened its legal attack of the state’s restrictive abortion laws, relying on a new guarantee of abortion access in the Ohio constitution to target other legal roadblocks to reproductive care.a recently enacted law that prohibits abortion providers from administering medication abortions to telehealth patients.
In a court filing Thursday, Planned Parenthood amended its lawsuit to invoke the new constitutional language. Its lawyers also targeted two different abortion restrictions they want overturned. One is a series of laws that together prohibit advanced practice clinicians from providing medication abortion, regardless of their education, training, and experience. The other is a prohibition on prescribing mifepristone, a medication abortion drug, in any manner that differs guidance from federal regulators.
State lawmakers have signaled an unwillingness to roll back the state’s long list of restrictive abortion laws, despite a likelihood they violate the new constitutional regime. The telehealth lawsuit is one of several lawsuits alongside others challenging Ohio’sOhio House passes bill allowing renewable energy credits for coal-burning coke plant
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