The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month for a case involving a lower court’s challenge to the state’s “heartbeat” abortion ban that remains blocked.

The case’s hearing is set for Sept. 27, nearly a year after a Democratic judge in Hamilton County, Ohio, put the six-week abortion law on hold indefinitely, Cleveland.com reported on Thursday. The Ohio Supreme Court accepted the case in March, agreeing to hear an appeal from Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, who contested the lower court’s decision to keep the case in Hamilton County.

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The Ohio Supreme Court, which holds a Republican 4-3 majority, will consider whether the state’s 1st District Court of Appeals should have denied Yost’s appeal of Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Christian Jenkins’s ruling to place the heartbeat law on hold while Jenkins considers arguments from pro-abortion rights groups.

In the fall hearing, the state court’s justices will also review whether those groups that sued over the heartbeat law have legal standing in their case. If the abortion rights groups don’t have legal standing, the decision would see their case dismissed and the heartbeat law reinstated in the state.

The Ohio Supreme Court declined Yost’s third request that would have asked the high court whether the state constitution creates the right to an abortion.

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The hearing date announcement comes just two days after Ohio voters rejected Issue 1, a ballot measure that would have made it more difficult for a proposed abortion amendment to pass in the state’s November election. Ohio residents are set to vote on whether abortion rights will be added to the state constitution, which, if approved, would protect the medical practice under state law.

The abortion constitutional amendment would allow “every individual … to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions.” It would also prohibit abortion “after fetal viability,” which is currently cut off around 22-24 weeks of pregnancy in Ohio.