The Kentucky clinics will return to performing abortions since this Friday, at least for now, after a judge has blocked the law that establishes multiple restrictions on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the southern state, which last week became the first in the United States to stop performing abortions completely in these centers.
This, after the only two clinics that continued to perform abortions in Kentucky declared unable to meet the complicated requirements included in the new standard. However, federal judge Rebecca Grady Jennings agreed Thursday to block the law while litigation continues about its content, as requested by both health centers.
From Planned Parenthood have celebrated the judicial decision as “a victory” although they warn that “it’s just the first step”. “We intend to fight in court for the right to basic healthcare,” Rebecca Gibron, regional director of the organization, which runs one of the two Kentucky clinics, said in a statement.
Last week, with the entry into force of this restrictive law, both clinics they had to cancel their appointments and refer their patients to centers in other states where there was access to legal abortion.
a restrictive rule
The law introduced in Kentucky – based on one enacted in Mississippi pending decision by the Supreme Court. prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of gestationa significant reduction compared to the 24 weeks contemplated by the judicial decision that legalized abortion in the North American country in 1973, known as ‘Roe versus Wade’.
Furthermore, the standard does not contain exceptions for cases of incest or rape and imposes new requirements that the clinics could not meet in the short term due to lack of means. Requirements that include requiring that many patients who abort fill out “birth-death certificates” or that the doctors who assist them report the status of each intervention, including the method of abortion, according to the specialized media ‘The 19th’, cited by Eph.
The details that doctors have to provide include biographical details of the person aborting and their sexual partner, including race, ethnicity, age, place of residence, and health data. In addition, telematic appointments to prescribe medication that allows abortion are prohibited and more power is given to the state to audit clinics, in addition to creating a web page with the names of all the doctors who perform abortions in the state.
Conservative leaders in Oklahoma and Florida this week also approved restrictions on abortion in their respective states, following the line of Texaswhich in September imposed a veto on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy from six weeks of gestation.
Source: Lasexta
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