Kentucky’s governor Matt Bevin signed two bills in recent weeks banning abortions on the basis of race, sex or a disability diagnoses and after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Motions for injunctions have already been filed against both of the bills – HB5 and SB9 respectively.
The National Review reports that the HB5 “reasons” bill – which Bevin signed into law on Tuesday – contains an “emergency clause” which would have allowed it to go into effect immediately after it was signed.
According to the Associated Press, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion on March 15 requesting a preliminary injunction or “temporary restraining order” against the bills, anticipating that Bevin would sign them once they reached his desk.
In the suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of EMW Women’s Surgical Center – Kentucky’s only abortion clinic – the group claims that the bills are “blatantly unconstitutional bans on abortion.”
The suit asserts that the “Plaintiffs will prevail on their claim that the Bans are unconstitutional under 46 years of Supreme Court precedent, beginning with Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), which unequivocally holds that the State may not ban abortion before the point of fetal viability, regardless of the woman’s reason for her decision.”
“The Bans will cause immediate irreparable harm…
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