Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron asked the state’s Supreme Court on Sunday to reinstate two restrictive abortion laws after a judge temporarily blocked their enforcement.
Cameron argued in his filings that there is “no basis for a right to abortion” in the Kentucky Constitution and every day the laws are not enforced is a day that “unborn children of the Commonwealth are lost forever.”
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“We are exhausting every possible avenue to have Kentucky’s Human Life Protection Act and Heartbeat Law reinstated,” Cameron said. “There is no more important issue than protecting life, and we are urging the state’s highest court to consider our request for emergency relief.”
Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry granted a request by the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood for a restraining order last Thursday, allowing abortions to resume in the state. Cameron filed a motion with the Kentucky Court of Appeals on the same day to reinstate the law, which was denied.
Kentucky’s trigger law, the Human Life Protection Act, went into effect shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. After it went into effect, it was challenged in court. The bill was signed into law in 2019 and bans abortions unless the mother’s life is in immediate danger. The law does not provide exceptions for rape or incest and stipulates that any provider who administers an abortion is guilty of a felony.
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The state’s six-week abortion ban or “heartbeat” law was previously stopped in federal court, though Cameron has petitioned to appeal the decision.
