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Court to hear bid for new defense of Kentucky abortion law

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Kentucky's attorney general, who wants to be allowed to defend a restriction on abortion rights that lower courts had struck down.

The underlying issue in the case, to be heard in the fall, is a blocked Kentucky law that abortion rights supporters say would have effectively banned a standard abortion method in the second trimester of pregnancy.

But the issue before the court is whether Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, can intervene in the case, after rulings from a trial court and appellate panel, as well as Democratic Gov.

Andy Beshear's decision to drop the case. The law was adopted in 2018, when Republican Matt Bevin was governor. Following a lawsuit by

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