State tells Sharonville (Ohio) abortion clinic to close

[Redfairen]

Source: Cincinnati.com

One of the Cincinnati area’s two abortion providers, Women’s Med in Sharonville, has been denied a reprieve from the state’s move to revoke its license to operate.

The ruling would force Women’s Med to stop offering abortions, but the clinic plans to appeal the order in court by the Feb. 3 deadline, attorney Jennifer Branch told The Enquirer. The clinic may remain open during any appeal. A receptionist who answered the phone Tuesday morning said the clinic was still open.

The decision from the Ohio Department of Health puts 2.1 million people in the Cincinnati metropolitan area – Ohio’s most populous – closer to losing local access to an abortion clinic. If both Cincinnati-area clinics were to close, the region would become the largest metropolitan area in the country without an abortion clinic, according to an Enquirer analysis cross-referencing U.S. Census data and abortion providers.

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Ohio had 14 abortion clinics at the start of 2013 and could soon be down to seven. At issue in several cases is a law passed in June as part of the state’s two-year budget. The new rule prohibits abortion clinics from forming a patient-transfer agreement with a taxpayer-funded public hospital.

Read more: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20140121/NEWS010801/301210037/State-tells-Sharonville-abortion-clinic-to-close

[FarPoint]

1. Dayton's Clinic will be next on the Teabaggers list of dening women's right to choose.

I can't stand this backward time in our society.

[leftyohiolib]

2. the fact that white people as a group will soon be a minority has them crapping all over themselves

[Samantha]

3. Perhaps the people of Ohio should abort Republicans' ability to hold legislative office

That would fix many of these problems.

Sam