CCV Files Brief on Behalf of Ed Meese at Ohio Supreme Court
CCV Files Amicus Curiae Brief with Ohio Supreme Court in HB68 Appeal Case on Behalf of Hon. Edwin Messe III
COLUMBUS—Center for Christian Virtue (CCV) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of Honorable Edwin Meese III, urging the overturn of the Tenth District Court's decision in Madeline Moe, et al. vs. Dave Yost, et al. to block the Saving Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, known as House Bill 68 (HB68).
The brief argues that the Tenth District's decision used false originalism—and Hon. Meese's name—to justify an interpretation of the Healthcare Freedom Amendment at odds with its original intent.
Hon. Meese, former Attorney General of the United States, not only supported the enactment of Ohio's Healthcare Freedom Amendment but also played a key role in promoting originalism as the appropriate method of constitutional interpretation.
The brief argues the Tenth District erred in holding that Subsections (B) and (C) of the Healthcare Freedom Amendment both guarantee a right to purchase any so-called health care service that a provider is willing to offer and prevent the General Assembly from enacting laws prohibiting doctors from using experimental, sterilizing procedures on children.
That decision was faulty, the brief continues, because Subsection (D) of the Amendment actually "preserves the Ohio General Assembly's power to enact 'laws calculated to deter fraud or punish wrongdoing in the health care industry.' ... Thus, the legislature's power to regulate 'wrongdoing' in the health care industry includes the power to prohibit procedures that pose too great a risk to the public. And the legislature reasonably used this power to prohibit treating minors' gender dysphoria with experimental, potentially irreversible procedures like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries."
Yesterday, in a major win for the protection of Ohio children, the Ohio Supreme Court granted Attorney General Dave Yost's emergency motion to stay the ruling from the Tenth District Court of Appeals, allowing the ban on gender-related medical treatments to be reinstated while the case is heard.
You can read the amicus curiae brief here.
For more information, contact CCV at 513-733-5775 or contact@ccv.org. For media inquiries, email media@ccv.org.
As Ohio's largest Christian public policy organization, Center for Christian Virtue seeks the good of our neighbors by advocating for public policy that reflects the truth of the Gospel.
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