UPDATE: Yost, Whaley comment on OH Supreme Court ruling of ‘Heartbeat Bill’

COLUMBUS — UPDATE @5:00 p.m.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued a statement late Friday afternoon regarding the Supreme Court of Ohio’s denial of Preterm-Cleveland’s motion for an emergency stay of the, “heartbeat bill.”

Former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, Democratic candidate for Governor, said in a statement Friday afternoon that, “this fight is not over.”

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The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday denied a motion to temporarily block the state’s, “Heartbeat Bill,” our news partners 10TV in Columbus reported.

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Attorneys representing abortion clinics in the state filed an emergency stay on the law Wednesday, 10TV reported.

The law will remain in effect as the state’s highest court reviews a lawsuit to overturn it.

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“We are deeply disturbed by the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision,” said the ACLU of Ohio in a statement.

The Ohio Christian Alliance praised the decision.

Yost issued a statement regarding the lawsuit, saying that abortion is not in the Ohio Constitution and posted about the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision on Twitter.

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The lawsuit asked Attorney General Dave Yost, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, several county prosecutors (including Franklin County) and the State Medical Board of Ohio to abide by the pre-existing age restriction of 22 weeks from the first day of a patient’s last menstrual period and not the new law, which brings that down to six weeks when many women don’t get know they are pregnant.

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