Kentucky Abortionists Drop Lawsuit, State Can Keep Saving Babies From Abortions
The state of Kentucky can continue to save babies from abortions. That’s because abortionists who operated abortion centers in the state dropped their lawsuit against the state’s abortion ban.
After overthrowing the US Supreme Court Roe in June, Kentucky and more than a dozen other states began enacting laws protecting unborn babies by banning or severely limiting elective abortions. Many have faced legal challenges by pro-abortion groups, but, in Kentucky, the state Supreme Court refused to block the law.
About 4,000 unborn babies are aborted annually in Kentucky under Roe v. Wade and those babies will continue to enjoy legal protection. Because that’s an abortionist dropped their lawsuit against the ban:
The parties who sued the state of Kentucky last year over its near-total abortion ban have asked a judge to dismiss their lawsuit.
Tuesday’s motion to dismiss, which must be granted by a judge, is the latest in a year-long legal battle between the state’s two remaining outpatient abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who has long fought to defend laws restricting abortion in the commonwealth.
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In their majority opinion, most of the justices decided that no, there was not enough reason to block both laws from being implemented, because neither provider had the appropriate constitutional standing to challenge the six-week ban, specifically, on on behalf of affected patients. Both plaintiffs have first-party standing to challenge the trigger law, because their clinics were directly affected by the discontinuation of abortions. As for the six-week ban, the claim that it violated their patients’ constitutional rights to privacy and self-determination was too broad, the court found.
The bigger question — does the Kentucky Constitution protect an individual’s right to an abortion? — still unanswered. The high court highlighted this in their decision: “To be clear, this opinion does not in any way determine whether or not the Kentucky Constitution protects the right to receive an abortion,” they wrote. “Nothing in this opinion shall be construed to preclude an appropriate party from filing suit at a later date.”
Abortion activists say another case is coming – one that will reportedly represent women who can’t have an abortion and that will argue that the inability to kill a baby in an abortion is somehow harmful.
All pro-life laws allow abortion when the mother’s life is in danger and, in some states, cases of rape and incest. They make up a very small percentage of all abortions in the US Research from the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that about 96 percent of abortions are for elective reasons only.
In June, the Supreme Court was withdrawn Roe in a historic victory for life and restored the power to legalize abortion among the people. Because of Dobbs against Jacksonstates may protect unborn babies from abortion for the first time in nearly 50 years.
Two recent polls show growing public support for legal protections for unborn babies. A Marist College poll found that 69 percent of Americans support limiting or banning abortions, up from 62 percent in June. Another new poll from UMass Amherst found a 5-percent drop in those who say Congress should pass legislation to legalize abortion nationwide and a 6-percent increase in support for a national ban on abortion, WCVB News reports.
A new Gallup poll shows a majority of Americans want to protect babies from abortions.
