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| Hamilton County Court Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway (D) |
Hamilton County Court Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway issued a Temporary Restraining Order against Senate Bill 157 on March 2. This was the desired response from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, which sued the state late last month.
After being signed into law, Senate Bill 157 was set to become effective on March 23. The law requires physicians to provide medical care for infants who survive abortion. Additionally, abortion businesses would be required to have physicians on staff with admitting privileges at local hospitals. To separate taxpayer dollars from abortion, doctors who work for publicly funded hospitals or universities would not be allowed to contract with abortion businesses to fulfill this requirement.
In her ruling, Judge Hatheway wrote that the pro-abortion organizations will "likely" succeed in their claim that the law “violates [their] due process rights to continue to operate its business and its staff’s due process rights to pursue their professions.”