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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 1973's Roe v.Wade ruling meant the state could no longer regulate abortion in the first trimester. [7] EMW Women's Surgical Center took the state of Kentucky to court in 1998 over the need to have a license to run an abortion clinic.
In 2022, Kentucky was the only one of these states with both an active abortion ban and an active abortion referendum. Following the results of the referendum, Kentucky's abortion ban was contested by abortion providers to the Kentucky Supreme Court , which in February 2023 ruled that the providers lacked standing to challenge the state's ...
Voters struck down a 2022 amendment to remove abortion rights from the state ... Plaintiffs argued establishing rulings without approval from the General Assembly goes against the Kentucky ...
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.
A must-read newsletter for political junkies across the Bluegrass State with reporting and analysis from the Lexington Herald-Leader. ... a doctor cannot lawfully provide an abortion without ...
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.
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
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.