{"id":201908,"date":"2019-05-13T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201908"},"modified":"2019-05-14T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:39:26","slug":"judge-overturns-kentucky-ban-dismemberment-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/judge-overturns-kentucky-ban-dismemberment-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge overturns Kentucky dismemberment abortion ban, state to appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, the Kentucky legislature passed a law<\/a> that banned dilation and evacuation, or D&E, abortion procedures<\/a>. Immediately, the ACLU vowed to challenge the law<\/a> on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the last abortion facility in the state of Kentucky. While Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin promised to defend the law, a judge struck down the ban<\/a> this week, declaring it to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley ruled the ban is unconstitutional because it restricts abortion before a preborn child is considered viable, which is typically around 24 weeks — although babies have survived and continue to\u00a0survive weeks younger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

D&E abortions are typically committed in the second trimester, and are violent procedures that take several days. An abortionist first inserts laminaria into the mother’s cervix, and then after one to two days, the woman returns to the abortion facility, where the abortionist will further dilate her cervix, and then uses a sopher clamp to rip the baby apart piece by piece.<\/p>\n