Demonstrators outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Demonstrators outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

What the Front Line of the U.S. Abortion Fight in Kentucky Looks Like Now

From a new Texas law to the gantlet outside a Kentucky clinic, abortion rights are under attack in the U.S. The Supreme Court may have the final word.

A woman seeking to end a pregnancy in Kentucky after 14 weeks has one choice: She enters a brick building on the edge of downtown Louisville after running a gantlet of abortion opponents determined to change her mind.

Patients coming to the EMW Women’s Surgical Center on a recent Tuesday navigated as many as 10 protesters, including a preacher with a microphone, a man and boy holding "abortion is murder" signs and a woman who tried to redirect people to the anti-abortion pregnancy center next door.