U.S. judge temporarily blocks enforcement of Kentucky's new abortion law

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Source: reuters



April 21, 20223:35 PM CDTLast Updated a min ago



April 21 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Kentucky officials from enforcing a sweeping new abortion law that Planned Parenthood said would force abortion clinics to stop offering the procedure until they can meet certain requirements.

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings in Louisville issued a temporary restraining order at Planned Parenthood's request a week after the Republican-led legislature overrode a veto by the state's Democratic governor to enact the law.[nL2N2WC1Z1]

The measure, HB 3, made Kentucky the first U.S. state without legal abortion access since the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established the right to end a pregnancy before the fetus is viable nationwide, abortion providers say. read more ................................



The plaintiff was a Planned Parenthood affiliate, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, that runs one of Kentucky's two remaining abortion clinics.

"This is a win, but it is only the first step," Rebecca Gibron, the Planned Parenthood affiliate's chief executive, said in a statement................................

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-enforcement-kentuckys-new-abortion-law-2022-04-21/

[peppertree]

1. Next up: A barrage of death threats

That's being "pro-life" for you.

More like low-life.

[calimary]

5. Exactly.

Pro-life to NO-life in one threatening phone call.

[peppertree]

8. The old live-and-let-die

Live if I agree with you, and you're of the right ethnicity.

Die otherwise.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. K & R!

[Novara]

3. GOOD

For now. It'll be back in place when this shitty SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. Interesting for a Trump appointee

Guess she wasn’t the handmaiden they thought she was.

[ShazzieB]

6. It's nice to know they aren't ALL completely useless, isn't it?

Meanwhile, I was surprised to read this:

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate lawsuits challenging the law, which calls for a combination birth-death or stillbirth certificate to be issued for each abortion and bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

This threw me for a loop, because I was under the impression that Kentucky had simply banned all abortions, period. This is the first I've heard about the birth-death certificate thing, and I find that almost more revolting than an outright ban, because of the deliberate cruelty and stupidity involved.

This is in the same category as the law Indiana passed when Pence was governor, requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains: pure political theater that serves no purpose whatsoever and accomplishes nothing other than to create a badge of (dis)honor that politicians can brandish to show their voters how "pro life" that are.

Both laws are disgustingly disingenuous and revotingly hypocritical. Of course, that probably won't stop the current SCOTUS from cheerfully allowing this law to stand if asked to rule on i. Which is even more disgusting and even more evidence that the number of justices on the court needs to be expanded.

[Bettie]

7. I expect a quick shadow docket

"no, it can go into effect" ruling.