A judge has temporarily blocked an abortion ban in Kentucky that came into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on June 24 that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.
The Kentucky abortion ban, passed in 2019, has an exception that lets the doctor perform the abortion if it is deemed necessary to prevent the death or injury of the mother. The law took effect after the Supreme Court issued its decision on June 24 that overturned Roe, the ruling that had largely legalized abortion in the country for nearly five decades.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mitch Perry on Thursday granted the request by Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the state’s only two abortion providers, for a temporary suspension of Kentucky’s “trigger” law….