Posted on 04/21/2022 11:47:44 PM PDT by Morgana
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a Kentucky law that effectively eliminated abortions in the commonwealth, where the only two clinics said they couldn't meet its requirements.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings was a victory for abortion rights advocates and a setback for the Republican-led legislature, which passed the law in March.
Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, had vetoed the measure, but the legislature overrode him last week to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and require women to be examined by a doctor before receiving abortion pills.
Both of Kentucky's clinics said that they would immediately resume abortion services following the ruling from Jennings, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump.
The new law contains new restrictions and reporting requirements that the Kentucky clinics said they couldn´t immediately comply with. Noncompliance can result in stiff fines, felony penalties and revocation of physician and facility licenses.
Jennings' order did not delve into the larger issue of the new law's constitutionality.
Instead, it focused on the clinics' claims that they're unable to immediately comply with the measure because the state hasn't yet set up clear guidelines.
The judge said her order does not prevent the state from crafting regulations which would allow enforcement to move forward.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sounds like a momentary setback.
The correct word should be “defers” not “blocks.” Also, I object strenuously to adding the term “rights” after the word “abortion.”
Yep. The key word in the article is, “temporarily”.
Judge Rebecca to the rescue.
Can’t have women having babies.
THAT IS PURE EVIL.
The “order does not prevent the state from crafting regulations which would allow enforcement to move forward.”
It appears the judge only blocks the penalties and not the law. The abortion mills still will be regulated, it’s just that the regulations need to be drafted. This article is unnecessarily confusing, an attempt to mislead.
The article repeats it self over and over and over, but can’t ONCE say what the law actually entails?
The article is very clear that the law has been suspended, but compare the judge’s actions to whenever any OTHER regulation is put into place. When Congress is 1973 demanded that academically incompetent children receive the same education in the same setting as everyone else, it’s taken 50 years running to create the regulations to define how to meet an impossible standard... but the law stayed on the books.
And if you don’t believe that the judge is a pro-slaughter-innocent-babies judge, read the top of her statement: “If Plaintiff cannot comply with HB3 and must cease providing certain medical services until the Cabinet promulgates a means of compliance, then this disruption to medical services will no doubt interrupt the continuity of care for Plaintiff’s patients... As a result, a temporary restraining order serves public policy.”
IOW, she finds that it serves public policy to ensure that baby killing isn’t temporarily halted.
That's both corrupt and insane.
Paging Dr. Fauci. Is this a judge interfering with “health care?”
Kentucky should answer that the judge has no Constitutional authority in the matter and therefor the judge’s personal opinion has zero relevance and will have zero effect.
Millions of mothers have been claiming a right to murder their daughters and sons between conception and birth for decades.
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