The law was signed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, R, in December and was set to go into effect March 23 before the judge issued his ruling. It would have banned abortions if one of the primary reasons behind it was a mother learning of a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis.
“Federal law is crystal clear: ‘a State may not prohibit any woman from making the ultimate decision to terminate her pregnancy before viability,'” Mr. Black wrote in his ruling, according to The Hill. “Here, Ohio’s new law wrongfully does just that: it violates the right to privacy of every woman in Ohio and is unconstitutional on its face.”
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