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Prior to 2019, Kentucky law prohibited abortions after week 22. This changed when the state legislature passed a law that moved the prohibition to week 6 in the early part of the year. [16] Two bills which seek to prohibit abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected were filed in the Kentucky General Assembly in 2019. [23]
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 what we know about Kentucky abortion laws and the legal cases around it. Abortion Abortion rights activist with Kentucky ties to campaign for President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. June 24 ...
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 ...
Today in Kentucky, abortion is banned in all cases–zero exceptions except for the life of the pregnant person. ... But Kentucky’s restrictive law meant she had to leave the state for abortion ...
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 ...
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.
A near-total abortion ban has been in place in Kentucky since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. It does not include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.