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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.
[55] 57% of people in Kentucky said abortion should be "illegal in all or most cases". [56] According to a 2014 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) study, 60% of white women in the state believed that abortion be illegal in all or most cases. [57] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. [58]
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 ...
Five abortion-related bills were filed by Republicans and Democrats alike in the 2023 session of the General Assembly. None made it even as far as a committee hearing.
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 ...
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. [200]
The justices, however, 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 ...
The lack of exceptions to the state’s trigger ban on abortion was a major political issue in Gov. Andy Beshear’s re-election effort. Republican lawmaker files bill to add rape, incest ...