An Ohio judge has blocked enforcement of a state law related to medication abortion for the third time in a new Hamilton County court decision.
The 2021 law at issue in the case, Ohio Senate Bill 260, prohibits telemedicine abortions, and the lawsuit has since been amended by the challengers to include laws that keep not only doctors but “advanced practice clinicians,” like nurse practitioners and physician assistants, from virtually prescribing mifepristone, which is used for medication abortions.
Under the original law for which entities like Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the ACLU of Ohio sued, physicians could be charged with a fourth-degree felony for a first offense of providing abortion-inducing drugs via telemedicine, and a third-degree felony for subsequent offenses.
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