Planned Parenthood SW OH Region v. DeWine, No. 11-4062 (6th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseIn 2004, Ohio passed a law criminalizing the distribution of mifepristone, also known as RU-486, unless the distribution complied with protocols and gestational time limits identified by the FDA when mifepristone was first approved in 2000. Ohio Rev. Code 2919.123. Mifepristone, in combination with misoprostol, was the only form of medical abortion offered by Planned Parenthood in Ohio. Planned Parenthood’s Ohio regional clinics and two of its doctors challenged the Ohio Act. The district court entered a preliminary injunction to cover the Act’s failure to make an exception for circumstances involving the health and life of the mother, but the Act has otherwise been in force since February 2011. Following resolution of certified questions by the Ohio Supreme Court, the district court entered summary judgment that: the Act was no longer unconstitutionally vague; did not violate a woman’s right to bodily integrity under the Fourteenth Amendment; and did not impose an undue burden on a woman’s Fourteenth Amendment right to choose abortion. Whether the Act unduly burdens a woman’s right to health and life under the Fourteenth Amendment was held for trial. The Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment on the vagueness and bodily-integrity claims.
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