Republicans don’t want to talk about restrictions in the first or second trimester, instead trying to turn the conversation to very rare third trimester abortions.
If it took effect, the decision could bar mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions, from being provided over telemedicine, limiting clinics’ capacity.
The new law contains a couple of significant differences from the measure voters rebuffed last fall.
Many states with abortion bans are experiencing broiling summers — and the heat could damage supplies such as emergency contraception and condoms.
The temporary injunction also would allow the procedure for fatal fetal anomalies and protects doctors from prosecution in such cases. But the state appealed the decision, blocking it from taking effect.
Ohio Republicans added back a previously canceled August special election to make it harder to amend the state constitution ahead of a November vote on abortion rights.
Greta Kemp Martin is challenging Lynn Fitch, Mississippi’s first woman attorney general, whose office represented the state in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The vice president’s second trip this year comes as GOP candidates, including Donald Trump, visit the key state in the primary.