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Last Updated on Thursday, 24 April 2008 02:51 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 24 April 2008 01:08
The Ohio attorney general’s office tried again yesterday to save a state law that restricts the use of a pill that induces abortion.The law was supposed to take effect in 2004, but it has been tied up in federal court for four years and has never been enforced.Lawyers for Attorney General Marc Dann asked the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the law was vague and, therefore, unconstitutional.
Planned Parenthood, which sued to block enforcement of the law, contends that the law is so confusing and unclear that doctors could face criminal charges for acts they did not know were illegal.
The state’s interpretation of the law “would subject physicians to potentially limitless requirements,” Planned Parenthood’s attorneys argued.