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Dec 11, 2025
Preterm-Cleveland, et al. v. Yost, et al. (waiting period challenge)
Ohio law burdens people seeking an abortion with a set of onerous, medically unnecessary, and sometimes harmful prerequisites to obtaining that abortion. This set of restrictions violates the new constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights in the state.
Dec 11, 2025
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio v. Ohio Department of Health (telemedicine)
In 2021 Ohio passed S.B. 260, a law prohibiting telemedicine abortions. Medication abortions are safe and effective whether they are performed in a medical office or at home. S.B. 260 violates the new constitutional prohibition on unnecessary legal burdens on reproductive healthcare.
Aug 01, 2019
Preterm, et al. v. Yost, et al.
In 2019, Ohio signed into law a "heartbeat bill" criminalizing abortions after 6 weeks after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly and unequivocally held that, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a state may not ban pre-viability abortions.
Oct 29, 2015
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region et al. v. Hodges et al.
The provisions of H.B. 59 and H.B. 64 in question violate the 14th Amendment because they impose an undue burden on women’s right to terminate their pregnancies, and they violate the right to due process because they endow private parties with standardless, unreviewable authority.
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