Citing the voter-passed 2022 state constitutional amendment that guaranteed access to abortion, an Ohio judge voided a state law that required patients seeking an abortion to have two separate appointments at least 24 hours apart to complete the procedure, NBC News reports. Patients can now get an abortion as quickly as they can buy a gun in the state.
Saying the issue is “clear and unambiguous” because off the amendment’s language, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David C. Young found “that the challenged statutes burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, and discriminate against patients in exercising their right to an abortion and providers for assisting them in exercising that right.” The state’s Republican attorney general said he would appeal the decision.