[Washington Examiner] Ohio abortion providers are asking a judge to strike down the state's "heartbeat" law, which blocks abortion at around six weeks of gestation, in light of the new abortion-expanding constitutional amendment that voters approved last month.The amendment went into effect on Dec. 7 and guarantees access to abortion for any reason as long as a physician signs off on it.
Chief advocates of the abortion amendment, which include the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Ohio, filed an amended complaint to their already active challenge to the heartbeat law, asking a judge to consider the suit in light of the new amendment. Ohio's six-week law and similar proposals in other states are often described as heartbeat bills because they ban abortion after the point at which a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat.