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Kentucky gov signs abortion bill already facing a lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
Kentucky gov signs abortion bill already facing a lawsuit
By BRUCE SCHREINER
March 19, 2019
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican governor on Tuesday signed into law an anti-abortion measure already entangled in a federal lawsuit, instructing his lawyers to fight the legal challenge against the new restrictions on the procedure.
Days before Gov. Matt Bevin put his signature on the legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union filed its challenge in anticipation he would do so. The new law bans abortion for women seeking to end their pregnancies because of the gender, race or disability of the fetus.
The measure took effect upon Bevin’s signature, and his lawyers filed a response to the lawsuit aimed at blocking it. Kentucky lawmakers and GOP-led legislatures in several other states have pushed anti-abortion measures in hopes of getting a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
In asking a judge to block the new Kentucky law, the ACLU argued that it removes a woman’s right to an abortion if the state “disapproves of her reason” for the procedure. The suit was filed on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, the only abortion clinic in Kentucky.
In reply, Bevin’s legal team said: “EMW and its abortionists have responded with a novel claim: Women have a constitutional right to undergo race-based abortions, gender-based abortions, and disability-based abortions. In (the) plaintiffs’ view, somewhere in the Fourteenth Amendment’s penumbra lies a secret protection of eugenics.”
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By BRUCE SCHREINER
March 19, 2019
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican governor on Tuesday signed into law an anti-abortion measure already entangled in a federal lawsuit, instructing his lawyers to fight the legal challenge against the new restrictions on the procedure.
Days before Gov. Matt Bevin put his signature on the legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union filed its challenge in anticipation he would do so. The new law bans abortion for women seeking to end their pregnancies because of the gender, race or disability of the fetus.
The measure took effect upon Bevin’s signature, and his lawyers filed a response to the lawsuit aimed at blocking it. Kentucky lawmakers and GOP-led legislatures in several other states have pushed anti-abortion measures in hopes of getting a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
In asking a judge to block the new Kentucky law, the ACLU argued that it removes a woman’s right to an abortion if the state “disapproves of her reason” for the procedure. The suit was filed on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, the only abortion clinic in Kentucky.
In reply, Bevin’s legal team said: “EMW and its abortionists have responded with a novel claim: Women have a constitutional right to undergo race-based abortions, gender-based abortions, and disability-based abortions. In (the) plaintiffs’ view, somewhere in the Fourteenth Amendment’s penumbra lies a secret protection of eugenics.”
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Read more: https://apnews.com/8c9ed29a3a924a889839d1dbbac41e57
