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[53] 57% of people in Kentucky said abortion should be "illegal in all or most cases". [54] According to a 2014 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) study, 60% of white women in the state believed that abortion be illegal in all or most cases. [55] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. [56]
In mid-2022, Kentucky was one of the fastest states to outlaw abortion on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its landmark 1973 decision, thanks to a preemptive state law enacted in 2019.
State attorney general Daniel Cameron stated that the failure of the amendment should have no impact on whether the Kentucky Constitution contains the right to an abortion. [11] On February 16, 2023, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that abortion providers lacked standing to challenge the state's abortion ban, but did not elaborate on whether ...
The exceptions in the law were established in April 2023; previously, under a trigger law that went into effect after Dobbs, there were no exceptions to the state's abortion ban, though a doctor charged under the law could assert an affirmative defense that their actions were necessary to save their patient's life. [197]
Here's what we know about Kentucky abortion laws and the legal cases around it. Abortion Abortion rights activist with Kentucky ties to campaign for President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. June 24 ...
Five abortion-related bills were filed by Republicans and Democrats alike in the 2023 session of the General Assembly. None made it even as far as a committee hearing.
The justices ruled on narrow legal issues but left unanswered the larger constitutional questions about whether access to abortion should be legal in the Bluegrass State. In late 2023, a Kentucky woman sued to demand the right to an abortion, but her attorneys later withdrew the lawsuit after the woman learned her embryo no longer had cardiac ...
KY Supreme Court’s ruling that abortion providers can’t sue on behalf of their patients shifted the burden of challenging those laws to those most impacted by them: Pregnant women.