Jun 30, 2022 - Health

Court temporarily blocks Kentucky's total, 6-week abortion bans

Oriana González

Picture of an abortion rights rally — Photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

A state court on Thursday temporarily blocked two restrictive abortion laws in Kentucky, a six-week ban and a complete abortion ban that the state's attorney general threatened to enforce.

Driving the news: Kentucky's only two abortion clinics had stopped offering abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in fear that the two laws could be brought back.

What they're saying: "We’re glad the court recognized the devastation happening in Kentucky and decided to block the commonwealth’s cruel abortion bans," according to a statement from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Indiana, Kentucky, ACLU, and ACLU of Kentucky, all parties to the lawsuit.

"Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe last Friday, numerous Kentuckians have been forced to carry pregnancies against their will or flee their home state in search of essential care."

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Court temporarily blocks Kentucky's total, 6-week abortion bans

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