{"id":279867,"date":"2022-11-16T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=279867"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:11:03","slug":"kentucky-supreme-court-arguments-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kentucky-supreme-court-arguments-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Supreme Court hears arguments in case challenging pro-life state law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case challenging the state’s law protecting nearly all preborn children from abortion. The arguments will determine if the law can stand while the lawsuit, which challenges its constitutionality, plays out in court.<\/p>\n

The state’s trigger law, which protects nearly all preborn children from abortion, went into effect following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>. It was immediately challenged by the abortion industry in the case\u00a0Cameron v. EMW Surgical Center.\u00a0<\/i>While the law was initially blocked, an August\u00a0appeals court ruling<\/a>\u00a0allowed the law to stand, halting most abortions in the state. Following Tuesday’s hearings, the court will decide whether or not to uphold the appeals court ruling or place an injunction on the law, which would allow abortions to resume.<\/p>\n

The argument, as in many states, seems to hinge on the nebulous “right to privacy” in state constitutions, used by abortion activist groups to promote the alleged “right” to kill a human being in the womb.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe within that right to privacy and the right to self-determination, to determine what\u2019s best for your own future and your own body is also the right to access abortion,\u201d ACLU of Kentucky Communications Manager, Samuel Crankshaw told WKYT<\/a>. In other words, abortion is not an enumerated “right” in the state; abortion groups just want the law to be interpreted<\/em> to include it as such.<\/p>\n

While the state legislature has passed the law ensuring protections for the preborn, Kentucky voters recently rejected<\/a> Amendment 2, which would have ensured that abortion is not<\/em> a right in the state constitution. Had it passed, the ambiguous “privacy” interpretation would be moot.<\/p>\n

Kentucky Right to Life Executive Director Addia Wuchner told WKYT that she hopes the court retains its focus on the current Kentucky constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the judicial side of it, the justices should be ruling on the Constitutionality. Not on what\u2019s popular,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re there because we have stated from the very beginning, there\u2019s not a right, an explicit right, to an abortion as the constitution stands right now. And that\u2019s what the Attorney General was also defending.\u201d<\/p>\n

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My statement regarding our defense of Kentucky's Human Life Protection Act before the Supreme Court of Kentucky: pic.twitter.com\/9fnNp6xnBu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Attorney General Daniel Cameron (@kyoag) November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n