of surgical abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. common second trimester abortion procedure. the lower courts immediately put a hold on it. it went to the court of appeals for the sixth circuit. it agreed and said that would violate supreme court precedent. now, the state at that point decided that it was no longer going to try to defend the law. it defended it in the trial court, and it initially defended it before a three-judge panel, but there was an election, the democratic attorney general was replaced by a republican attorney general, daniel cameron, who then went to the court of appeals and said, now i want to get in. that s the question. can he come in at this late stage? and there are arguments on both sides of that. if he wins, then it only allows him to go back to the sixth circuit and try to prevail. it s no guarantee that the kentucky law would be put back into effect. but because it s about abortion at the back of the case, this in essence is a sort of proxy fight over a