Women's Medical Professional Corporation Martin Haskell, Md v. Bob Taft, Governor Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General Mathias H. Heck, Jr.

The Court must determine whether Ohio’s Substitute House Bill 351 (“HB 351”) provides a constitutionally adequate exception for the health of pregnant women in light of its ban on intact abortion procedures.1, 2 The adequacy of that exception must be judged according to the constitutional requirement that abortion regulations allow exceptions when “necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.” See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 164-165, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973); Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 879, 112…