{"id":1953448,"date":"2023-06-21T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-requests-dismissal-of-its-own-challenge-to-kentucky-abortion-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:51:31","slug":"planned-parenthood-requests-dismissal-of-its-own-challenge-to-kentucky-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-requests-dismissal-of-its-own-challenge-to-kentucky-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood drops challenge to Kentucky abortion ban."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplanned-parenthood-requests-dismissal-of-its-own-challenge-to-kentucky-abortion-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Planned Parenthood and EMW Women\u2019s Surgical Center Seek Dismissal of Abortion Ban Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>In a surprising turn of events, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women\u2019s Surgical Center have requested a judge to dismiss their own year-long challenge to Kentucky\u2019s abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p>The motion supporting a dismissal came after the two abortion organizations were unable to produce a pregnant woman who wanted to and was prevented from getting an abortion because of the ban by the court&#8217;s deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are gratified that the abortion providers recognized their case should be dismissed,\u201d Kentucky\u2019s Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in a statement. \u201cAs a result of our efforts, I am proud to say that the elective abortion industry is out of business in Kentucky, and their inhumane practice remains illegal in our Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two last abortion providers in the Bluegrass State challenged the two abortion restrictions in June 2022 after they went into effect immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The two challenged laws include a trigger law that bans abortion except to save the life of the mother and a six-week ban.<\/p>\n<p>EMW and Planned Parenthood argued the laws violated the rights to privacy and bodily autonomy as guaranteed by the Kentucky Constitution and were able to secure a temporary block of the laws. Cameron challenged the decision, which was eventually overturned by the Kentucky Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs then appealed to the state\u2019s Supreme Court, which ruled in Cameron\u2019s favor. The Court ruled that the two organizations did not have standing to challenge the laws on behalf of their patients. The court also ruled that the temporary injunction was an abuse of the circuit court\u2019s discretionary power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe moved to dismiss this case because earlier this year, the Kentucky Supreme Court issued an extraordinary ruling that took away health care providers\u2019 ability to defend the rights of their patients, upending decades of precedent,\u201d the two abortion providers said in a statement. \u201cBringing cases on behalf of patients has been standard practice in Kentucky and across the country for good reason \u2014 numerous obstacles stand in the way of patients coming forward to participate in litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Because Planned Parenthood and EMW could not produce a patient to challenge the law by the deadline, they filed their motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood and EMW\u2019s challenge was not the only challenge to Kentucky\u2019s abortion laws. Three Jewish women are challenging the ban on religious liberty grounds, saying the law is based on the Christian belief that life begins at conception, a belief they argue is absent from Judaism. Because of this, they claim, the law gives preference to Christians.<\/p>\n<h3>Attorney General Daniel Cameron&#8217;s Political Aspirations<\/h3>\n<p>Cameron, who is the Republican nominee to challenge Democratic Governor Andy Beshear later this year, is making his conservative record as Attorney General a central component of his campaign. He aims to contrast himself with Beshear and tie the incumbent to the unpopular President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood and EMW Women&#8217;s Surgical Center seek to drop their year-long challenge against Kentucky&#8217;s abortion ban. 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