Ohio appeals court sends lawsuit related to abortion ban back to trial court
An Ohio appeals court has rejected efforts to completely undo the state law that includes Ohio’s six-week abortion ban, but left untouched the ruling that struck down the ban itself following voter passage of a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights.
In a recent ruling from the Ohio First District Court of Appeals, a lawsuit over the 2019 Ohio Senate Bill 23 law, which created the state’s near-total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest among other provisions, was sent back to a trial court.
The trial court had previously rejected both the law’s abortion ban after six weeks’ gestation and the other provisions related to abortion care that were passed along with it.
The appellate court judges said the unconstitutionality of the abortion ban was not in dispute during the appeal.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/12/ohio-appeals-court-sends-lawsuit-related-to-abortion-ban-back-to-trial-court/