Abortion

The case the Ohio docs are watching involves a federal law requiring hospitals and health professionals to provide emergency medical care.

The case against Brittany Watts of Warren has attracted attention beyond Ohio, but the doctors say charges related to her reported miscarriage should be dismissed.

The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether doctors and abortion providers who filed a case in Hamilton County last year that led to the state's six-week ban being put on hold had standing to do so.

In the months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an Ohio Supreme Court action put a six-week abortion ban in place that was later lifted by another court. Today the fight is over constitutional amendments.

Dan Skinner talks with obstetrician-gynecologist and State Rep. Anita Somani about abortion and reproductive rights, the impact anti-transgender legislation is poised to have on Ohio patients; and balancing life as a physician-legislator.

Coalition says Ohio's current abortion ban does not reflect the opinion of the majority of Ohioans.