Ohio clinic to halt surgical abortions due to 2013 state law

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Ohio clinic to halt surgical abortions due to 2013 state law

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A suburban Cincinnati clinic will stop performing surgical abortions as a result of a 2013 state law that bars agreements to move women needing emergency care to public hospitals, an attorney for the clinic said on Wednesday. The Ohio Department of Health had ordered Women’s Med in Sharonville, also known as Lebanon Road Surgery Center, closed after it could not procure a required transfer agreement with a non-publicly financed hospital. The clinic decided not to appeal, according to clinic attorney Dorothea Langsam. Women’s Med is the only clinic within 100 miles that provided abortions between 18 and 22 weeks of pregnancy, which often address fetal anomalies and high-risk pregnancies, clinic spokeswoman Valerie Haskell said in a statement.

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