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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Justices allow new defense of blocked Kentucky abortion law

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general may continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.

The underlying issue in the case is a blocked state law that abortion rights supporters say would have effectively banned a standard abortion method in the second trimester of pregnancy.

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