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The abortion facility was declared “unsanitary” and closed down, but a judge says, \u201cclosing the clinic is against the public interest.\u201d While state health inspectors described the facility as “filthy,” according to The Global Dispatch<\/a>, Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone decided abortions would go on.<\/p>\n

Scorsone’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.\u00a0 In January Bevin sent a letter<\/a> to Planned Parenthood citing its lack of paperwork showing it has met the requirements to operate as an abortion facility. The Governor said it was knowingly running an illegal abortion facility and ordered Planned Parenthood to stop performing abortions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A month later, Bevin sued Planned Parenthood<\/a> for committing those illegal abortions. And then Bevin’s office also sued the EMW Women\u2019s Clinic in Lexington, saying it was also committing abortions illegally. The Courier-Journal reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0lawsuit said the cabinet’s Office of Inspector General visited the EMW clinic on Feb. 17 after receiving an anonymous complaint. It said inspectors found poor conditions including dust and grime in patient areas and expired or improperly stored medications.<\/p>\n

It also said the clinic was operating as a physician’s office when it should have been licensed as an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, the attorney for EMW, Scott White, said<\/a>, “If you do a procedure in a doctor’s office, you shouldn’t have to have one.”<\/p>\n

Kentucky requires that abortion facilities be licensed.<\/p>\n

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White added<\/a>,\u00a0“It’s insulting. It’s a legal procedure.”<\/p>\n

So is heart surgery, but it’s not performed in a filthy facility\u00a0that could injure women with its improper, unsanitary conditions. That’s what state health officials testified in the hearing, but the judge still deemed leaving the filthy and unsanitary facility open to perform abortions was in the public interest because, as the judge wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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EMW is the only physician\u2019s office that routinely provides abortion services in the Eastern half of the state, and both parties agree that a right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy is constitutionally protected. Closing EMW would have a severe, adverse impact on the women in the Eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Being given medication that expired in 1997, or having an abortion procedure on an improperly sanitized table, or having “\u201ccleaning instruments [that] revealed similarly filthy conditions<\/a> ,” has a much more severe, adverse effect on women. But that isn’t something Judge Scorsone was willing to consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The abortion facility was declared “unsanitary” and closed down, but a judge says, \u201cclosing the clinic is against the public interest.\u201d While state health inspectors described the facility as “filthy,” according to The Global Dispatch, Fayette Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone decided abortions would go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":57754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,8017,1138,844,14],"yoast_head":"\nJudge allows "filthy" Kentucky abortion center to reopen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Judge Ernesto Scorsone seems have no problem with allowing an "unsanitary" and "filthy" abortion center to stay open, in order to protect abortion access.\" \/>\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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