ACLU sues Ohio officials over abortion restrictions in budget
Source: Reuters
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND | Wed Oct 9, 2013 12:25pm EDT
(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a lawsuit against state officials on Wednesday over abortion restrictions in the state's budget law.
The ACLU of Ohio challenged three abortion-related amendments passed in June as part of the state budget. The lawsuit, filed in Cuyahoga County on behalf of Preterm-Cleveland, Inc, a Cleveland women's health clinic that provides contraception and abortion services, contends that the amendments violate the Ohio Constitution's "single subject" rule.
"To put it simply, none of these amendments have any place in the state budget bill," said Susan Scheutzow, ACLU cooperating attorney. She said the subject of the two-year, $62 billion state budget law was appropriation of funds for existing government programs and obligations.
ACLU cooperating attorney Jessie Hill called the amendments "highly controversial social legislation that were snuck into a must-pass budget bill in the eleventh hour without public debate or input."
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