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20 states back Kentucky in asking Supreme Court to uphold dismemberment abortion ban

Updated: December 16, 2020 at 5:58 am EST  See Comments

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December 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A coalition of twenty states is asking the Supreme Court to side with Kentucky in its bid to have the United States Supreme Court uphold its ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure infamous for dismembering babies in the womb.

In 2018, former Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signed HB 454 into law, which bans the dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion procedure. D&Es are more commonly known as “dismemberment abortions” because they function by tearing a preborn baby apart limb by limb. 

The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) quickly sued, and U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley sided with them last May. This summer, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit agreed, claiming that HB 454 “imposes an undue burden” on “all of the individuals it restricts” and denying Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s request to defend the law after Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) Eric Friedlander chose not to appeal the case.

Now Cameron wants to take the case to the nation’s highest court, and his counterparts in

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