Kentucky’s restrictions on the most commonly used method for second-trimester abortions is valid and enforceable, a group of anti-abortion state attorneys general told a federal appeals court.
The state can lawfully require a physician to cause a fetus’s death before proceeding with a dilation and evacuation abortion, 16 state attorneys general said in a July 17 friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The group is urging the court to overturn an order permanently blocking the state from enforcing the law.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky May 10 said the ...
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