Ohio's new pro-abortion governor wants no state restrictions on RU-486, the abortion pill. A federal judge overturned a law restricting access to the drug last year, and Democrat Ted Strickland wants the state to drop its appeal of the ruling.
According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, outgoing Republican Gov. Bob Taft had ordered the appeal to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but Gov. Strickland this week instructed Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann to withdraw the state from further legal action.
The appeal may not be dead, however. Dann said neither he nor the state's prosecutors are directly under the governor's authority -- and they have not decided whether to withdraw.
