Supreme Court Lets Kentucky GOP Official Defend Abortion Curbs

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general can take over the defense of a strict abortion law after the state’s top health official, a Democrat, stopped defending the measure once an appeals court struck it down.

Voting 8-1, the justices rejected a federal appeals court’s conclusion that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron waited too long to get involved. The case centered on procedural issues, not substantive questions of abortion rights.

Abortion Fight’s Front Line: Fear, Shouts and the Supreme Court

The law would effectively ban the most common abortion technique used after the 15th week of pregnancy. ...