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Lawyers for a Lexington, Kentucky, abortion facility\u00a0and the state of Kentucky were in court Wednesday, March 16,\u00a0over allegations<\/a> that the facility\u00a0was performing abortions without a license.<\/p>\n

Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone heard the arguments regarding whether or not to temporarily block the state from closing the facility\u00a0while the state pursues its lawsuit. However, he did not immediately rule on whether EMW Women\u2019s Clinic can resume providing abortions or be forced to shut down.<\/p>\n

While the judge takes time to make this decision, women with scheduled abortions on Thursday and Friday will have to reschedule those appointments.\u00a0 The Bevin administration\u2019s Cabinet for Health and Family Services could fine the clinic up to $10,000 for each abortion provided while the lawsuit is in place.<\/p>\n

This is the second abortion facility\u00a0to be ordered to cease and desist since pro-life Governor Matt Bevin took office in 2015. The other is a Planned Parenthood in Louisville which had only recently begun offering abortions<\/a> in January after canceling their federal family planning dollars.<\/p>\n

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“Planned Parenthood in Louisville cut off their federal funding from the city,” explained Monica Henderson, executive director of Louisville’s A Woman’s Choice pregnancy center. “Title X was terminated right before they started offering abortions. It’s really interesting and curious to me that the chapter director for Planned Parenthood says<\/a> that they calculated what was in their best interest financially \u2013 walking away from Title X made more sense financially. I think it was because they were going to start offering abortions and they could make more money off abortions\u00a0than they could from the city for family planning.\u00a0They plan on a lot more business whether it\u2019s everything else that they do besides abortion or everything plus abortions.”<\/p>\n

With both of these facilities currently\u00a0unable to provide abortions, there is only one active abortion center in the state of Kentucky: EMW Women\u2019s Surgical Center in Louisville.<\/p>\n

According to the Courier-Journal<\/a>, EMW Women\u2019s Clinic in Lexington has been operating as a physician\u2019s office and did not think it needed a license. In addition, the state\u2019s lawsuit said a February 18 inspection of the facility\u00a0\u2013 its first since 2006 \u2013 found that the facility\u2019s only<\/em> service is abortion – which means it is ineligible for the licensure exemption given to private doctor\u2019s offices. That same inspection revealed that the facility\u00a0had expired medications and was unsanitary. It was also found to lack\u00a0the legally required transport agreement with an ambulance service to bring women to the hospital should a patient suffer abortion complications.<\/p>\n

EMW\u2019s lawyer Scott White and Planned Parenthood\u2019s lawyer Thomas Clay both believe Gov. Bevin is acting on a \u201cpersonal vendetta\u201d by suing the abortion centers, despite the fact that the facilities were in violation of the law. White argued that until Bevin took office, no one from the state paid much attention to the unlicensed EMW facility or tried to shut them down.<\/p>\n

Scorsone said he would notify both sides when he issues a ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawyers for a Lexington, Kentucky, abortion facility\u00a0and the state of Kentucky were in court Wednesday, March 16,\u00a0over allegations that the facility\u00a0was performing abortions without a license. Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone heard the arguments regarding whether or not to temporarily block the state from closing the facility\u00a0while the state pursues its lawsuit. 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