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Courts in the US states of Ohio and Arizona halted abortion bans

An abortion restriction was overturned by judges in the US states of Arizona and Ohio on Friday, giving pro-abortion supporters a meagre triumph. Arizona’s Chief Judge Eckerstrom said that the lower court might have erred in reviving the Civil War-era law.

The judge was making reference to a lower court’s decision last month to overturn a long-standing injunction that had prohibited Arizona from implementing its abortion prohibition.