Most Abortions Illegal in Kentucky After State’s Supreme Court Rejects Request for Relief
The Kentucky Supreme Court on Aug. 18 rejected a request by abortion providers to block state laws that ban most abortions.
Planned Parenthood, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, and Dr. Ernest Marshall asked the court to enter an emergency motion dissolving an appeals court ruling, which recently lifted an injunction against the bans that had been entered by a lower court.
But judicial rules require “extraordinary cause” to be demonstrated by parties moving for emergency relief, and “the circumstances presented by the Movants in their motion do not rise to the level of extraordinary cause,” the state’s top court said in a majority ruling….