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  2. Kentucky's abortion law: what it says, what it can (and can't ...

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    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.

  3. Where lawsuits on Kentucky’s bans on abortion, gender ... - AOL

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    Kentucky’s Republican super-majority General Assembly in 2019, under then-Gov. Matt Bevin, passed a trigger law banning abortion except in medical emergencies. It was intended to lock into place ...

  4. Abortion in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 1800s, all states in the Union except Louisiana had therapeutic exceptions in their legislative bans on abortions. [7] In the 19th century, bans by state legislatures on abortion were about protecting the life of the mother given the number of deaths caused by abortions; state governments saw themselves as looking out for the lives of their citizens.

  5. Kentucky rejected amendment to nix abortion rights in 2022 ...

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    In December 2023, a new suit was filed by plaintiffs Jane Doe, a Kentucky woman using a pseudonym to conceal her identity, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, against the state's Attorney's Office ...

  6. Activists renew push to repeal Kentucky's near-total abortion ...

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    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 ...

  7. New class-action lawsuit challenges Kentucky abortion bans ...

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    A lawsuit filed by Jane Doe and Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Kentucky seeks to overturn the state's near-total trigger ban on abortion. New class-action lawsuit challenges Kentucky abortion ...

  8. 2022 Kentucky Amendment 2 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Why Kentucky’s abortion bans are so hard to challenge in court

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    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.