🚨 BREAKING: A Kentucky judge temporarily blocked the state's near-total ban 🚨

[In It to Win It]

I didn't see this posted anywhere so I figured I'd post. My bad for any double posting.

The Associated Press
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BREAKING: A judge cleared the way for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state’s near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban

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1. Thank you, ACLU and Planned Parenthood

In Kentucky, Thursday’s ruling allowed abortions to resume after they ended abruptly last week.

Amber Duke, interim executive director of the ACLU of Kentucky, urged women seeking an abortion to call the two clinics in Louisville, noting that one of them, EMW Women’s Surgical Center, plans to resume abortion services Friday. Duke said some women who scheduled appointments outside Kentucky because of the ban may be able to get the procedure in the state — at least for now.

She said since Friday, EMW turned away 199 patients with scheduled appointments — including 14 who were at the clinic when the Supreme Court issued its ruling. She said denying them care was “devastating.”

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood released a joint statement saying they were glad the “cruel abortion bans” were blocked, adding that since last week’s ruling, “numerous Kentuckians have been forced to carry pregnancies against their will or flee their home state in search of essential care.”

- https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-kentucky-louisville-government-and-politics-e312e5aab91c5d72ef98a9003a21feca

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2. Every time I see a judge blocking something

temporarily, the first thing that comes to my mind is that he or she wants money under the table for unblocking it.

I'm getting so cynical in my old age...