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Gov. Matt Bevin has ordered the last abortion clinic in Kentucky to stop performing abortions next week: https://t.co/5gbtHi7hKs
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 29, 2017
Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration is seeking to shut down Kentucky’s only abortion provider, prompting a federal lawsuit by the clinic to block the move it says would have “a devastating impact on women.”
Bevin’s administration has ordered the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville to stop providing abortions starting Monday, claiming it lacks proper agreements for patient care in the event of a medical emergency.
EMW’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Louisville, calls the order “blatantly unconstitutional” and asks a federal judge to bar the Bevin administration from revoking the EMW clinic’s license.
“They’ve made it clear they won’t stop until no woman can get an abortion in Kentucky,” said Donald L. Cox, a lawyer for EMW. “It’s just an attempt to ban abortion in Kentucky.”
The state’s announcement in a March 13 letter that it is revoking the license makes the EMW clinic the latest enforcement target of the administration of Bevin, an anti-abortion Republican who has called himself an “unapologetically pro-life individual.”