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An Ohio judge temporarily blocked a restrictive abortion measure from taking effect.
The law requiring aborted fetal remains to be cremated or buried was slated to take effect this week.
The judge said the state hadn t created the proper paperwork to execute the law.
A judge in Ohio temporarily blocked a law requiring that medical abortion providers either bury or cremate the fetal tissue extracted during the procedure just before it was set to take effect Tuesday.
Judge Alison Hatheway, a Democrat in Hamilton County, on Monday issued a preliminary injunction against the law just one day before it was scheduled to go into effect, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
The longer a person sits in the Franklin County jail while awaiting the outcome of his or her misdemeanor case, the worse that outcome is likely to be.
At least that was true for those held in pretrial detention at the jail for the first six months of 2018, according to a recent study issued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.
Those who spent two weeks or more in the Franklin County jail while their misdemeanor cases were pending were 40% more likely to be convicted than those who were in jail for three days or fewer, the study reported.
The house in the 300 block of East 14th Street in Columbus has two full baths, off-street parking, a washer and dryer, is pet-friendly and includes a disclaimer to prospective renters that is common among the city s rental ads: No Section 8, meaning people subsidized by federal housing vouchers need not apply.
But those days are about to come to an end after the Columbus City Council on Monday approved a package of housing legislation that includes protection for renters from income discrimination, particularly outlawing the practice of denying low-income residents leases if they rely on federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 housing vouchers.
Instead of creating laws that would reduce the prison population, lawmakers are passing laws that could increase the number of prisoners who are living in coronavirus hotbeds.
Though last year state lawmakers were caught up mostly in COVID and the scandal involving former Speaker Larry Householder (R-Glenford) and the nuclear