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Abortion is illegal in Kentucky, except to save a pregnant woman’s life or to prevent disabling injury. [1] [2] [3] There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900, including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998, the state passed legislation that required clinics to have an abortion clinic license if they wanted to operate.
The 1821 abortion law of Connecticut was the first known law passed in the United States to restrict abortion. Although this law did not completely outlaw abortions, it placed heavier restrictions, as it prevented people from attempting or receiving abortions, which was generally through the consumption of poison, during the first four months ...
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 ...
Louisville Republican Rep. Ken Fleming filed a bill Friday that would add exceptions to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban for cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal anomalies and ectopic pregnancies.
Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., No. 18-483, 587 U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 1780 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of a 2016 anti-abortion law passed in the state of Indiana. Indiana's law sought to ban abortions performed solely on the basis of the fetus' gender, race, ethnicity ...
The suit is seeking class-action status to include others who are or will become pregnant and want the right to have an abortion. It is challenging Kentucky’s near-total trigger law ban and a ...
2010 Colorado Amendment 62; 2014 Tennessee Amendment 1; 2022 California Proposition 1; 2022 Kansas abortion referendum; 2022 Kentucky Amendment 2; 2022 Michigan Proposal 3; 2022 Montana Legislative Referendum 131; 2024 Arizona Proposition 139; 2024 Colorado Amendment 79; 2024 Maryland Question 1; 2024 Missouri Amendment 3; 2024 Nebraska ...
A new Kentucky Supreme Court is charged with issuing a ruling in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s abortion bans. Though oral arguments took place November 15 in a case ...