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Kentucky's trigger law banning abortions was reinstated on August 1, 2022. [5] [6] The number of abortion clinics has declined over time, with eleven abortion clinics in 1982, nine in 1992, two in 2002, and one in 2017. There were 4,923 legal abortions in 2014, and 4,585 in 2015.
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. [201]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Changes since Dobbs: In January 2023, the state enacted interstate shield law, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights and in July 2023, the state passed a law prohibiting anti-abortion ...
Number of abortion clinics in Arkansas by year. Between 1982 and 1992, the number of abortion clinics in the state decreased by five, going from thirteen in 1982 to eight in 1992. [5] In 2014, there were three abortion clinics in the state. [17] In 2014, 97% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic.
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.