Press Releases

Jul 08, 2025

Ohio Preliminary Injunction Allows Advanced Practice Clinicians to Provide Medication Abortions

On July 8, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas granted a third preliminary injunction in a case filed on behalf of abortion clinics and health care providers
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Feb 14, 2025

Ohio Judge Permanently Blocks Abortion Burial or Cremation Law for Violating Reproductive Freedom Amendment

COLUMBUS- Today, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas granted our request to permanently block the enforcement of Senate Bill 27, a law that requires burial or cremation of fetal and embryonic tissue from procedural abortions.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Jan 28, 2025

New Lethal Injection Bill Undercuts Reproductive Freedom Amendment and Distracts from Death Penalty Repeal, Says ACLU of Ohio

Today, Ohio lawmakers from both chambers introduced legislation that manipulatively interweaves two civil liberties issues: reproductive freedom and capital punishment.
Issue Areas: Ending the Death Penalty, Reproductive Freedom
Oct 24, 2024

Ohio Judge Permanently Strikes Down Six-Week Abortion Ban, Which Clearly Violates the Ohio Constitution’s Reproductive Freedom Amendment

Today, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas issued a permanent injunction blocking Ohio’s 2019 six-week abortion ban from taking effect, marking the first permanent injunction stemming from Ohio’s Reproductive Freedom Amendment, which took effect in December 2023.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Sep 03, 2024

Ohio Ruling Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Unconstitutional Medication Abortion Restrictions

On August 29th, the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas granted a preliminary injunction in a case filed on behalf of abortion clinics and health care providers.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Aug 23, 2024

Ohio Judge Blocks Laws Mandating 24-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions for Violating Reproductive Freedom Amendment

Today, the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granted our request to temporarily block several Ohio laws that together forced abortion patients to wait a minimum of 24 hours after receiving unnecessary state-mandated information in person before accessing their desired abortion care.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
May 10, 2024

Ohio Abortion Providers File New Challenges to Unconstitutional Medication Abortion Restrictions

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the law firm WilmerHale, and Fanon Rucker of the Cochran Law Firm amended their complaint in an existing lawsuit against a ban on telehealth medication abortion services.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Mar 29, 2024

Ohio Abortion Providers File Lawsuit Challenging 24-Hour Waiting Period and Other Abortion Restrictions

Today we filed a lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers challenging several Ohio laws that together force abortion patients to wait a minimum of 24 hours after receiving unnecessary state-mandated information in person before they can access their desired abortion care.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom
Dec 14, 2023

Ohio Abortion Providers File Amended Complaint in Challenge to Six-Week Ban With Issue 1 Language Now Secured in Ohio Constitution

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the law firm WilmerHale filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit challenging the six-week abortion ban, in light of Issue 1’s passage.
Issue Areas: Reproductive Freedom