Ohio's Attorney General Dave Yost is joining 23 Republican attorneys general in calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Yost is supporting a brief filed in a challenge to Mississippi laws that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, which the high court agreed to hear in May.

The Mississippi case will be a test of whether the court's conservative majority will limit the 1973 ruling giving women the constitutional right to abortion.

Yost says it's because the high court is unable to explain the constitutional source of the right to abortion and the lack of a consistent legal standard for determining when state laws violate that right

"The jurisprudence of abortion has become like the 1960s fights over pornography--no one can say exactly what's allowed and what's not," Yost said. "It's like Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography: 'I know it when I see it.' It's time to end this failed experiment in judicial law-making and return the matter to the States."

Currently, in Ohio a law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected and another prohibiting abortions after a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome are on hold in the statehouse.

NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Executive Director Kellie Copeland released a statement in response to the move by the attorney's general saying it's not Yost's place to decide whether someone else should have access to an abortion.

"The majority of Ohioans believe that when someone decides to have an abortion, it is critical that they are able to get that care in their community without stigma, political interference or delay," Copeland said. "Dave Yost’s values are not Ohio values."

 

 

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