Case Name: Yasuo SASAKI, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1973-05-04
Citations: 497 S.W.2d 713
Docket Number: 
Parties: Yasuo SASAKI, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.
Judges: PALMORE, C. J., and MILLIKEN, OSBORNE, REED, STEINFELD and STEPHENSON, JJ., sitting.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 497
Pages: 713–715

Head Matter:
Yasuo SASAKI, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
May 4, 1973.
William H. Allison, Jr., Louisville, Robert Allen Sedler, Lexington, Ellen Mosen, Member of Pennsylvania Bar, Louisville, for appellant.
John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., M. Curran Clem, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, Frank Benton, III, Commonwealth Atty., Newport, for appellee.
Robert C. Cetrulo, Covington, Robert F. Greene, Burlington, for amicus curiae of Northern Kentucky Right to Life Committee.

Opinion:
CULLEN, Commissioner.
In the decision of this court in this case reported in 485 S.W.2d 897, the Kentucky abortion statute, KRS 436.020, was held constitutional and the conviction of Dr. Yasuo Sasaki for violating that statute was affirmed. Dr. Sasaki appealed that decision to the United States Supreme Court. Pending that appeal, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. Thereupon, the Supreme Court, 410 U.S. 951, 93 S.Ct. 1422, 35 L.Ed.2d 684, vacated our decision in the instant case and remanded the case to this court with directions for further consideration in light of Roe v. Wade.
This court has made the directed consideration and is compelled to hold that since the Kentucky abortion statute is basically indistinguishable from the Texas statute held unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade, our statute also is unconstitutional. We so hold, which means that the conviction of Dr. Saski cannot stand.
The judgment is reversed with directions to dismiss the indictment.
PALMORE, C. J., and MILLIKEN, OSBORNE, REED, STEINFELD and STEPHENSON, JJ., sitting.
All concur.