LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case connected to an anti-abortion law in Kentucky.
The high court set the oral argument in the case for October.
In June, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a brief in support of his defense of House Bill 454 before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Kentucky law, which passed in 2018, prohibits a dialation and evacuation or D & E procedure, which accounts for the majority of second-trimester abortions in the U.S.
House Bill 454, referred to by its supporters as Kentucky's Live Dismemberment Abortion Law, easily passed the General Assembly in 2018 and was signed into law by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. It was never enforced, however, the EMW Women's Surgical Center in downtown Louisville and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the bill. A federal appeals court ultimately struck down the law in 2019.
The case concerns only Cameron's involvement. It will not decide whether abortion in any form is legal in Kentucky.
The judges said the law would create a substantial obstacle to a women's right to an abortion.
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