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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.
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.
Most Kentuckians lost abortion access when, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe. V. Wade, which had established the constitutional right to abortion. Kentucky’s trigger law went ...
Kentucky's trigger law, introduced as House Bill 148, was passed by the legislature in 2019 and later signed into law by former Gov. Matt Bevin. The law issued an immediate abortion ban in the ...
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 ...
Another Burke-sponsored bill, House Bill 428, would roll back laws passed since 2015 that limit abortion services in the state, especially the 2019 "trigger law" that banned most abortions after ...
The Supreme Court's ruling brings abortion to an end in Kentucky and many other states thanks to their trigger law. Here's a look at what that means. Kentucky has a trigger law, ending abortion ...