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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]
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]
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 ...
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.
Here’s where the laws stand as of… Wade in 2022, it allowed states under Republican control to impose abortion bans or severe limitations, a long-sought goal for many GOP anti-abortion lawmakers.
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 fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
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 ...