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As Live Action News has covered<\/a>, Lexington abortion facility\u00a0EMW Women’s Clinic has been closed since June, when the Kentucky Court of Appeals granted an injunction against the clinic sought by Governor Matt Bevin.<\/p>\n

In February, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services received an anonymous tip\u00a0that\u00a0EMW exclusively\u00a0performed abortions without a license. Cabinet inspectors reportedly\u00a0discovered the clinic was operating without a license, in what they described as unsanitary conditions – including dust on equipment.\u00a0Kentucky state law requires all full-time abortion facilities to be licensed.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for the abortion clinic\u00a0argued that the law does not apply to EMW, since they claim it is a women’s health clinic which also offers abortions. But EMW’s co-founder, Ernest Marshall, has testified<\/a> that most of the clinic’s work is abortions, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.<\/p>\n

Fayette County Circuit Court Judge Ernesto Scorsone denied the injunction, but his ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeals in June. EMW appealed, and now Kentucky’s Supreme Court has weighed in on the matter. In a lengthy decision, the Supreme Court\u00a0affirmed the ruling of the Court of Appeals, keeping the abortion clinic closed…<\/p>\n

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EMW has failed to demonstrate why it should be\u00a0exempt from licensure as an abortion facility. EMW exists solely to perform abortions and provides little to no proof it does anything else other than performing that service in potentially substandard conditions, proving precisely why the Commonwealth requires these facilities to be licensed in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bevin praised the Supreme Court’s decision. “The laws of Kentucky matter and must be followed,” he said, “even when individuals, corporations or lower court judges think otherwise.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Live Action News has covered, Lexington abortion facility\u00a0EMW Women’s Clinic has been closed since June, when the Kentucky Court of Appeals granted an injunction against the clinic sought by Governor Matt Bevin. In February, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services received an anonymous tip\u00a0that\u00a0EMW exclusively\u00a0performed abortions without a license. Cabinet inspectors reportedly\u00a0discovered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":96481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nKentucky Supreme Court rules to keep unlicensed abortion clinic closed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fayette County Circuit Court Judge Ernesto Scorsone denied the injunction, but his ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeals. 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