The two remaining abortion clinics in Southwest Ohio filed suit Tuesday in federal court, saying a new law gives Ohio’s health department the ability to close them immediately, without an opportunity for a hearing, as soon as Sept. 29.The lawsuit marks the latest strike in an ongoing battle between Cincinnati-area abortion clinics, Republicans in the Legislature and the Ohio Department of Health, which is part of GOP Gov. John Kasich’s administration. The conflict resulted in the closure last year of an abortion clinic in Sharonville and has threatened to leave the 2.1-million-person Cincinnati metropolitan area, the state’s largest, without an abortion provider.Ohio law requires surgical clinics to have a patient-transfer agreement with a private hospital in order to receive a license that allows them to perform abortions. If they can’t find a private hospital willing to sign on, they can receive an exception from the Ohio Department of Health. Southwest Ohio’s two remaining abortion providers, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Mount Auburn and the Women’s Med clinic in Dayton, are operating under such an exception and have spent months waiting on renewals from the state health department.The state’s newest abortion restriction, which Kasich signed into law June 30, gives the health department 60 days to make a… Read full this story
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