Steinberg v. Brown

OPINION

DON J. YOUNG, District Judge.

This is another in a series of cases which have been and are being filed in various courts throughout the United States attacking the constitutionality of state statutes forbidding abortions. This particular action was brought under Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331-1343, Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202, Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281 and 2284, and Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that Ohio’s abortion statute, Section 2901.16 Ohio Rev. *743Code,1 is unconstitutional under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to…