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[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]
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.
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.
A pregnant woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to restore the right to an abortion in Kentucky in the latest challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.
Kentucky Amendment 2 was a rejected legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, which was voted on as part of the 2022 elections.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.
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 ...
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 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 ...