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(Update) Ky Supreme Court Denies Effort to Reopen Abortion Clinic

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Update: With reaction from  Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.

A Kentucky abortion has lost its appeal to the state's Supreme Court in an effort to reopen. The EMW Women's Clinic in Lexington has been closed since June, when the state Court of Appeals granted Governor Matt Bevin's request to close it. 

The appeals court reversed an earlier ruling in Fayette Circuit Court. The clinic appealed to the state's highest court to overturn the appellate court ruling. In an unsigned order Thursday, the Supreme Court denied the clinic's appeal.

Bevin wanted the clinic shut down because he says they were performing abortions without a license from the state. The clinic's owner has said he's exempt from the licensure requirement because the clinic is a private physician's office.

Update:

Tamarre Wieder is with Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. She says the only abortion provider left in the state is in Louisville. “We’re really saddened by the ruling, because this disproportionately affects poor women, and people that are living in rural communities.”

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