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DAYTON, Ohio 鈥� The 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of Ohio, and attorney Jennifer Branch sought an emergency court order today on behalf of Women鈥檚 Med Center, the last clinic in the Dayton area. The motion seeks to block a restriction that has forced the clinic to stop providing surgical abortions.

The law requires abortion clinics to have a written patient-transfer agreement with a local hospital 鈥� which advocates say is medically unnecessary and designed to close clinics and cut off abortion access. Women鈥檚 Med Center has been forced to stop providing surgical abortion care, and will not be able to resume providing that care unless the court grants Women鈥檚 Med Center鈥檚 motion or the state grants Women鈥檚 Med Center鈥檚 license.

Elizabeth Watson, staff attorney at the 老澳门开奖结果 Reproductive Freedom Project, said: 鈥淎bortion is already extremely safe and the challenged restrictions do nothing to make abortion safer that it already is. The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is using these medically unnecessary abortion restrictions to try to close a clinic that provides critical care to patients in the Dayton area, which is unconstitutional, unwarranted, and cruel.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 imperative that rapid relief be procured so that the clinic may continue providing its crucial services to Ohio patients in need,鈥� said Elizabeth Bonham, staff attorney for the 老澳门开奖结果 of Ohio.

Cincinnati attorney Jennifer Branch, who has represented Women鈥檚 Med Center for over 20 years, shared her disappointment that the Department of Health has not yet issued the clinic a license. 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Med has been licensed since 2008, and has safely operated for decades prior to that without the need for a license,鈥� she said. 鈥淚n June, when a fourth doctor stepped up to admit patients to a hospital if the need arose, we thought ODH would grant the license. We are hopeful the federal court judge will keep the clinic open while ODH makes its decision on the license.鈥�

鈥淥hio is among a growing list of states drastically restricting access to safe and legal abortion through laws that medical experts agree do not enhance patient health or safety,鈥� said Kersha Deibel, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio President and CEO. 鈥淧atient safety is our number one priority and abortion is an extremely safe procedure. This is not about patient safety. The whole purpose of these requirements is to make it impossible for abortion providers to operate in Ohio and make it impossible for people to access safe, legal abortion. Planned Parenthood is here and available for those who need care as Women鈥檚 Med Center awaits further legal reprieve.鈥�

Ohio, like several states, has tried to push abortion out of reach by passing multiple restrictions on abortion that are not medically necessary, including the restriction challenged in this case. These restrictions are on top of Ohio laws that attempt to ban abortion, which have been blocked by courts.