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As of 2021, 20% of medical schools did not report providing curricular related content to abortion. [23] In the year 2022, it was projected that of that year's class of medical residents, 70.77% of the 129,295 (91,502) US medical students have medical training restricted by state laws, due to highly restrictive abortion laws.
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.
Kentucky's trigger law, introduced as House Bill 148, was passed by the legislature in 2019 and later signed into law by former Gov. Matt Bevin. The law issued an immediate abortion ban in the ...
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.
If enacted, the amendment would have declared that nothing in the Kentucky Constitution could be construed to protect a right to an abortion or public funding of an abortion. [1] Kentucky was one of six states to vote on an abortion-related referendum as part of the 2022 elections, alongside California, Michigan, Montana, Kansas, and Vermont. [2]
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.
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 ...
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 ...