The Kentucky Court of Appeals has reinstated a “trigger” abortion ban in the state, allowing the restriction to be in force amid ongoing litigation.
The ruling by Judge Larry E. Thompson (pdf) was in favor of Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who had asked the court on July 29 for an emergency stay after a lower court’s ruling blocked the abortion restrictions.
Thompson also reinstated a separate law that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy. The six-week ban was previously blocked by a federal court. But the challenge by the clinics argued that the injunction stopping the ban from being enforced will be dissolved owing to the June 24 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade….