Thu Mar 3, 2022 – 3:22 pm ESTThu Mar 3, 2022 – 3:23 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday that Kentucky’s Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron has the legal authority to defend a pro-life law that had been abandoned by the state’s Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear.
In 2018, former Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law HB 454, which bans the dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion procedure. D&Es are more commonly known as “dismemberment abortions” because they function by tearing a preborn baby apart limb by limb. Bevin was replaced by the pro-abortion Beshear in 2019, but Cameron, a pro-life Republican, was also elected to succeed Beshear in the attorney general’s office.
In 2019, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the law an “undue burden” on “all of the individuals it restricts,” and denied Cameron’s request to defend the law after Secretary of the Cabinet for Health & Family Services (CHFS) Eric Friedlander chose not to appeal the case.
“The threats to these sovereign interests are particularly acute in this case,” argued a brief to the Supreme Court filed by 20 states on Cameron’s behalf. “The Sixth Circuit
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