LEXINGTON, Ky. — The parties who sued the state of Kentucky last year over a near-total abortion ban have asked a judge to dismiss their lawsuit.
Tuesday’s motion to dismiss, which a judge has to grant, is the latest in a year-long legal battle between the state’s only two remaining outpatient abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who has long fought to defend laws restricting abortion in the commonwealth.
“We moved to dismiss this case because earlier this year, the Kentucky Supreme Court issued an extraordinary ruling that took away health care providers’ ability to defend the rights of their patients, upending decades of precedent,” both providers said in a statement. “Bringing cases on behalf of patients has been standard practice in Kentucky and across the country for good reason — numerous obstacles stand in the way of patients coming forward to participate in litigation.”
