A state court judge in Kentucky has blocked two anti-abortion laws from going into effect in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s sweeping decision to strike down the constitutional right to abortion care.
A lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood sought a restraining order to block two state laws passed in 2019 that the state’s attorney general threatened to enforce – a near-total ban on providing abortions and law that outlaws abortions at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they are pregnant, roughly two weeks after a missed period.
