Kentucky lawmakers are expected to consider adding exceptions for rape and incest to the state’s near-total abortion ban during the current 2024 legislative session in Frankfort. But abortion rights advocates say exemptions alone aren’t enough. Health providers in Kentucky and other states that already have limited exceptions to their state’s abortion bans (in Kentucky there […]
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Beshear, Cameron square off in NKY debate
Kentucky gubernatorial candidates Gov. Andy Beshear and Attorney General Daniel Cameron met for a debate on Monday, harpooning each other’s platforms – while attempting to demonstrate to voters why they’re the best choice to lead the state. During his opening statement in Northern Kentucky University’s George and Ellen Rieveschl Digitorium, Beshear, the Democratic incumbent, listed […]
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Kentucky AG avoids talk of more exceptions to abortion ban
Kentucky’s attorney general stood firmly behind the state’s near-total abortion ban Monday, saying he promotes Kentucky values “without fear or favor” though the Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped short of saying whether he supports adding more exceptions to the ban. At a news conference, Daniel Cameron refrained from commenting on calls for the state to include […]
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Abortion ban in Kentucky returns after appeals court decision
Abortion is again banned in Kentucky. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s motion to reinstate the abortion rule that bans the procedure upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. The rule was automatically triggered with the overturning of the federal Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court […]
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Abortion still legal in Kentucky for now after state Supreme Court denies motion to dismiss
Abortion in Kentucky is still legal after the Kentucky Supreme Court denied Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s emergency motion to dismiss a temporary injunction from Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry, blocking the 2019 fetal heartbeat law and 2022’s omnibus abortion law. “The Supreme Court’s decision to continue delaying enforcement of Kentucky’s Human Life Protection […]
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Judge temporarily blocks enforcement of law that bans abortion in Kentucky
A judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Kentucky’s trigger law that bans all abortions unless the mother’s life is at risk, which allows Kentucky’s two licensed abortion providers to resume the procedure for now. The law automatically banned abortions in Kentucky after the Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade, which constitutionally protected a […]
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Abortion providers file lawsuit challenging Kentucky bans
A lawsuit filed on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers seeks to block two abortion bans, saying that the Kentucky Constitution protects the right to privacy and bodily autonomy. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood Northwest, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky filed the lawsuit Monday, three days after the Supreme Court […]
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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: Here’s what that means for Kentucky
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday, effectively ending the ability for a woman to get an abortion in Kentucky. The decision triggers Kentucky’s fetal heartbeat law that passed in 2019, requiring any doctor performing an abortion to determine whether a fetus has a “detectable fetal heartbeat.” If one is detected, the woman […]
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Attorney general files lawsuit against Beshear over implementation of abortion bill
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration over the implementation of House Bill 3, the omnibus abortion bill that passed in the 2022 General Assembly session. “Gov. Beshear has a duty to faithfully execute the law, but he has failed to implement important provisions of House Bill 3,” Cameron […]
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Kentucky’s ‘fetal heartbeat law’ will be triggered if Roe v. Wade is overturned
If Roe v. Wade is overturned following the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion this week, Kentucky’s fetal heartbeat bill that passed in 2019 would be automatically triggered, meaning all abortions would essentially be banned in the state. In the Supreme Court draft, it would be left up to states as to how they […]