Fri Feb 17, 2023 – 2:24 pm ESTFri Feb 17, 2023 – 3:17 pm EST
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) –– The Kentucky Supreme Court rejected Thursday a bid by the abortion industry to block the Bluegrass State’s abortion bans from being enforced, ruling that a lower court “abused” its power in originally halting the laws.
Last July, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade the previous month, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry granted abortion facilities in Kentucky an injunction against enforcement of two abortion-limiting measures, a heartbeat-based abortion ban and a general abortion ban designed not to take effect until Roe was overturned, which together effectively prohibit nearly all abortions.
Attorney General Daniel Cameron subsequently sought and obtained an emergency reversal of the injunction, while pledging his office would “continue to vigorously defend the constitutionality of these important protections for women and unborn children across the Commonwealth.” Now, the state’s highest court has affirmed that reversal.
“After thorough review, we hold that the abortion providers lack third-party standing to challenge the statutes on behalf of their patients. Notwithstanding, the abortion providers have first-party, constitutional standing to challenge one of the statutes on their
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