{"id":177150,"date":"2018-01-03T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177150"},"modified":"2018-01-05T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:41:31","slug":"courts-decide-kentucky-abortion-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/courts-decide-kentucky-abortion-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life win: Kentucky may be the first state without an abortion facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>EMW Women&#8217;s Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, is the last remaining <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">abortion<\/a> facility in the state. Its sister center in Lexington closed down in 2017 because of unacceptable health conditions at the facility. Live Action News&#8217; Carole Novielli noted in July, &#8220;A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/news\/politics-government\/article83964517.html\">report<\/a> written by the Lexington Herald in June of 2016 indicates that when inspectors visited on the Lexington facility on February 17 that year, &#8216;they reported that employees told them the clinic only performed abortions&#8217; and they found &#8216;dirty conditions and expired medicine.&#8217;\u00a0News reports also indicate that state inspectors found unsanitary conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehilBSvsW4A\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A law in Kentucky requires abortion facilities &#8220;to have transfer agreements with a hospital in the event of botched abortions or medical emergencies,&#8221; reported Live Action News&#8217; Becky Yeh in September 2017. The law, according to an attorney for the state, is two decades old and has never been enforced, and every state in the area has laws like this one. Regardless, EMW, along with a Planned Parenthood facility in Louisville, sued the state and was granted &#8220;a temporary restraining order to stay open until a judge could decide on the matter.&#8221; According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/25282\/pro-life-win-horizon-first-state-set-be-abortion-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=062316-podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mattwalsh\">Daily Wire<\/a>, this matter could be decided upon within a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the courts have a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/louisiana-admitting-privileges-law-permanently-enjoined-by-federal-judge\/\">history<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/stunning-report-abortion-industry-one-nations-greatest-health-crises\/\">siding with the abortion industry<\/a> over the safety of women.\u00a0Even the U.S. Supreme Court, in its <em>Whole Woman&#8217;s Health v. Hellerstedt<\/em> decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-u-s-supreme-court-texas\/\">sided with the idea of &#8220;abortion access&#8221;<\/a> even though the plaintiff, the Whole Woman&#8217;s Health abortion chain, has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/long-history-of-health-violations-at-abortion-chain-suing-over-pro-life-law\/\">long history of failed health inspections and health code violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EMW Women&#8217;s Surgical Center, as reported by Carole Novielli, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/KYAbortion.pdf\">claimed<\/a> in court that showing a woman the truth of the development of her baby would &#8216;send a message of disapproval&#8217; about abortion.&#8221; In other words, &#8220;presenting the biological facts about the child&#8217;s current development and allowing the woman to hear the heartbeat&#8221; is something that this abortion business does not want to do, because, as Novielli states, &#8220;this information also reveals the truth \u2014 that the child in the womb is, indeed, a living human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The abortion industry, including EMW Women&#8217;s Surgical Center in Kentucky, profits when women are not fully informed about what abortion actually does to preborn children, or about its risks to women:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5THDmys8z30\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other states with only one remaining abortion facility include Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMW Women&#8217;s Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, is the last remaining abortion facility in the state. 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Live Action News&#8217; Carole Novielli noted in July, &#8220;A report written by the Lexington Herald in June of 2016 indicates that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":89526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-life win: Kentucky may be the first state without an abortion facility<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EMW Women&#039;s Surgical Center in Louisville is the last remaining abortion facility in Kentucky, and a court will soon decide whether it can remain open.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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