A federal judge struck down a Kentucky abortion law that would halt a common second-trimester procedure to end pregnancies. The state’s governor, who is against abortion, immediately vowed to appeal.
ACLU attorney Alexa Kolbi-Molinas said the judge’s ruling “affirms that health, not politics, will guide important medical decisions about pregnancy.”
Bevin spokeswoman Elizabeth Goss Kuhn said the governor’s legal team will appeal McKinley’s decision to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She predicted the law “will ultimately be upheld.” Kentucky is one of many Republican-dominated states seeking to enact restrictions on abortion as conservatives take aim at the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Energized by new conservatives on the Supreme Court,hope to ignite new legal battles that could prompt the justices to revisit Roe vs. Wade.
The state’s lawyers say the law would still allow use of the D&E procedure, but only after doctors used other methods to induce fetal death. Abortion providers violating the law would be guilty of a felony. Women undergoing such abortions would not face prosecution.
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