Supreme Court Allows Kentucky Attorney General to Continue Eleventh-Hour Effort to Revive an Abortion Ban

Ban remains blocked as case continues before Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

March 3, 2022 11:00 am

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WASHINGTON 鈥 The Supreme Court issued a ruling today in Cameron v. EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center that will allow Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to continue his eleventh-hour attempt to revive an abortion ban that two courts have already held unconstitutional. In its ruling, the court did not address the constitutionality of the underlying abortion ban, and instead only allowed Attorney General Cameron to join the case and attempt to overturn the decisions striking down the law. The underlying abortion ban will remain blocked as the case proceeds before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

鈥淧oliticians in Kentucky are working overtime to force people to continue pregnancies against their will, instead of doing what is best for the people they are supposed to serve,鈥 said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, senior staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果 Reproductive Freedom Project and lead counsel for EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center. 鈥淎nd it is not just in Kentucky. In Texas, most people are already being blocked from getting an abortion 鈥 a nightmare that could soon become reality for nearly half of this country, as the Supreme Court seems poised to gut or overturn Roe v. Wade. But this fight is not over and we鈥檒l continue doing everything in our power to protect each person鈥檚 ability to get an abortion, no matter where they live.鈥

The underlying case challenges a Kentucky law passed in 2018 that bans dilation and evacuation (D&E), the standard procedure for abortions after 15 weeks. The law is one of the more than 560 abortion bans and restrictions signed into law in the last decade.

The 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of Kentucky, and the law firm of O鈥橫elveny & Myers brought this case on behalf of EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center, P.S.C., on behalf of the clinic, its staff, and its patients, as well as two physicians who provide care at EMW, on behalf of themselves and their patients.

The case page for Cameron v. EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center can be found here: /cases/cameron-v-emw-womens-surgical-center

Cameron v. EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center is a part of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Joan and Irwin Jacobs Supreme Court Docket, which can be found here: /defending-our-rights/court-battles/supreme-court

The case page for the underlying abortion ban challenge, EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center v. Friedlander (formerly EMW Women鈥檚 Surgical Center v. Meier), can be found here: /cases/emw-womens-surgical-center-psc-v-meier-ban-safe-abortion-procedure

The Supreme Court docket for the case can be found here:


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