Abortion Illegal in Kentucky As Top Court Keeps Bans in Place

Abortion is nearly completely illegal in Kentucky, as the state’s top court allowed the enforcement of both a trigger ban and a six-week ban Thursday pending further litigation.

The abortion providers who brought the case lacked third-party standing to make a constitutional argument on behalf of their patients with respect to the six-week ban, the court said. An “appropriate party” could raise that claim at a later date, it said.

But the providers have first-party standing to challenge the trigger ban on their own behalf, the court said. They suffered an injury-in-fact in the form of financial harm because they’ve ...