Abortion providers in Kentucky voluntarily dismissed a state-court suit Tuesday in which they had sought a declaration that a “trigger” ban and a six-week ban are unconstitutional.
The providers had sued the state in June 2022, claiming that the Kentucky Constitution provided greater protections for abortion than its federal analog. The suit came shortly after the US Supreme Court declared that there’s no federal right to end a pregnancy before viability.
But the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in February that the providers lacked standing to sue on behalf of their patients, extinguishing the majority of their claims. The decision upended ...
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