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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A Kentucky woman who wants an abortion filed a lawsuit Tuesday to strike down the state’s near-total ban. The lawsuit alleges the woman, referred to as Mary Poe, is about seven weeks pregnant ...
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.
A near-total abortion ban has been in place in Kentucky since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. It does not include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.