Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Files Appeal Against Ruling by Hamilton County Activist Judge
FROM The Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost will appeal a Hamilton County court’s decision to strike down the state’s six-week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest that was put into effect for several months after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
Yost, along with Ohio Department of Health director Bruce Vanderhoff and the State Medical Board of Ohio’s Kim Rothermel and Bruce Saferin, were listed in the notice of appeal filed this week in the 1st District Court of Appeals. The 1st District is the appellate court that oversees Hamilton County.
The state attorney general is appealing Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins’ decision in October which struck down a 2019 law that banned abortions after six weeks gestation, a time at which supporters of the law said fetal cardiac activity could be detected.
The law was blocked in court almost from the moment it was enacted, with abortion rights advocates suing to stop enforcement of the law.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, Yost asked a federal court the same day for the law to be released from its injunction.
The law then went into effect for several months, but was then tied up in court again after abortion rights advocates like Preterm Cleveland and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region asked the Ohio Supreme Court, and then a Hamilton County court, to stop the law once again.
Cincinnati Right to Life adds: Let us remember that in 2022, for two and a half months while Ohio’s Heartbeat Law was enforced, the churning of the vacuum suction machines in Ohio were silenced. Women could not be sold abortion for their sons and daughters with beating hearts. Unborn babies were not dismembered in their mother’s wombs. There were fewer tears, fewer souls crushed, fewer deaths, and fewer red boxes of medical waste being hauled out of the Ohio facilities of unborn death.
Because of this, the abortion rate in Ohio dropped 15% in 2022.
With Christian Jenkins ruling to end the Hearbeat Law, as well as the August ruling from Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David Young that ended Ohio’s 24-hour waiting period, Ohio is experiencing a bloodbath of the unborn.
In Cincinnati, at our local unborn baby death mill, trained sidewalk advocates count daily, on average, 110 cars entering the morbid parkng lot. (Sometimes there are upwards of 125 cars daily) Women enter, becoming customers of the largest unborn baby killing business in America, Planned Parenthood.
Just this week, a mom paused for less than a minute to accept a post card with offer of help, from a sidewalk advocate. It was a blessing that a director of a pregnancy center called to let us know this pregnant mother left the abortion business, and showed up at the door of the center wiith the card in hand. Mom is now choosing life! A less than 30 second interaction, wrapped in prayer and love with a smile on top, saved a life!
Cincinnati Right to Life thanks Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost for not giving up on protecting life and mothers in Ohio. We pray for a successful court case that will save Ohio lives and end the violent bloodbath taking place in our great state.