LEXINGTON, Ky. — Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky have filed lawsuits asking a federal judge to block a restrictive abortion bill from taking effect in the state.
Calling the bill passed into law Wednesday night "tantamount to a ban on abortion," the pair of lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Thursday argue that House Bill 3, from Rep. Nancy Tate, a Brandenburg Republican, creates "unnecessary abortion requirements while simultaneously making those requirements impossible to comply with, given the immediate effective date of the law, forcing providers to stop offering abortion services," representatives of Planned Parenthood Alliances of Kentucky said in a statement.
Planned Parenthood's complaint contends that "it is impossible to comply with (the law's) vast provisions, resulting in an immediate ban on abortion statewide in the absence of this court's intervention."
