Surgical abortions to resume at Toledo clinic following health department licensure

TOLEDO - The only abortion clinic remaining in Toledo will be able to resume surgical abortions after its license was restored. The decision follows a long battle over transfer agreement requirements that lawmakers and Gov. John Kasich's administration imposed on abortion clinics.

A Promedica hospital in Toledo provided Capital Care Network with a signed transfer agreement days after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled against the clinic's legal challenge to state laws that require abortion clinics to have an agreement with a hospital willing to accept transfer patients.

While abortion foes say the agreements are needed to ensure care for patients, clinic operators say federal laws require hospitals to accept emergency transfer patients even if there's no agreement in place, and the agreements are just an effort to obstruct their operations.

Because its old license was revoked with the court decision, Capital Care Network had to file for a new license from the state, which was issued on May 8, 2018, according to NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. A separate legal challenge of the transfer agreement policy is in federal court.

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