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Democratic senator files bill asking for rape, incest exceptions in Kentucky’s abortion ban
FRANKFORT — Calling Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban “dangerous” and “cruel,” Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, introduced a bill Tuesday to add exceptions for rape and incest.? The bill will at least make it to a committee, the president of the Republican-controlled and staunchly anti-abortion Senate told Renee Shaw on Kentucky Tonight. Senate President Robert Stivers said […]
Another year, another push to make period products more accessible in Kentucky
FRANKFORT — Kentucky is one of 21 states that taxes period products, according to the Alliance for Period Supplies, but several Republican and Democrat lawmakers want to change that.? Period product tax is sometimes called the “pink tax” and advocates for removing it say the products shouldn’t cost more because they aren’t optional expenses.? Rep. […]
Home not just for the holidays: Meet two Kentucky families who open their hearts to foster children
In Spring 2022, Brydie Harris and husband Xian Brooks got an email that would change their lives.? A newborn Kentucky girl, flown to Tennessee for medical care, needed a foster family soon.? “Xian started to read the email to me and was like, ‘would you want this newborn–’? and I was like ‘yes,’” Harris recalled. […]
Kentucky child care advocates say Beshear’s budget doesn’t do enough?
Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the legislature to spend $141 million over the next two years to stabilize the child care industry, but some advocates for children say that won’t be enough. Beshear’s budget proposal comes as pandemic-era federal assistance is ending, leaving Kentucky’s child care providers to face potential closures, tuition increases and wage […]
Challenge to Kentucky’s abortion ban ends after pregnancy becomes nonviable
Lawyers for a Kentucky woman challenging the state’s abortion ban asked that the case be dismissed on Monday, a week after the fetus lost cardiac activity.? This came a week after the Kentucky woman who sued for the right to abortion announced her pregnancy was no longer viable. At the time she filed her lawsuit, […]
Republican backs bill to remove guns from Kentuckians at risk of hurting selves or others?
This story mentions suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. A Republican-backed draft bill aimed at temporarily removing firearms from Kentuckians at risk of harming themselves or others garnered mixed reactions from the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Friday morning.? Sen. […]
After six months of study, Kentucky certificate of need task force says more study needed
Lawmakers wrapped up a six-month study of Kentucky’s certificate of need law Thursday by saying more study is needed before they can make solid recommendations for reform. The task force unanimously approved a Findings and Recommendations Memo Thursday morning that laid out the opposing views on certificate of need (CON) in Kentucky: “One position is […]
Pike County schools will distribute overdose reversal drug
The Pike County School District in Eastern Kentucky will distribute 200 extra boxes of naloxone, commonly called Narcan,?to its campuses and families, thanks to a donation from the national nonprofit HarborPath. The school district already made the overdose reversal drug available to schools, it said Wednesday, but now has the capacity to provide more doses […]
Kentucky woman who sued for right to abortion now carrying embryo with no ‘cardiac activity’
Four days after a Kentucky woman sued for the right to an abortion, her lawyers said the embryo she carried “no longer had cardiac activity” as of Monday morning. A spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky declined to say whether Jane Doe, as the woman is called in her suit, will now […]
Without help from General Assembly, Kentucky child care industry facing ‘scary’ 2024
BENTON — Children’s laughter wafts throughout the iKids Childhood Enrichment Center in this West Kentucky town, around midday.? Dozens of children, whom the center staff call “friends,” get their final bursts of energy out before the post-lunch nap. Then, they sprawl on their classroom cots and drift away to dream. This is a vision of […]
Frankfort Democrat Derrick Graham to not seek reelection
Kentucky House Democratic Caucus Leader Derrick Graham will not run for reelection in 2024, he announced Friday.? Graham, a Frankfort Democrat, said in a statement that, “I feel strongly that now is the time to give someone else the chance to be our next state representative, a job I have loved since first being elected […]
Kentucky woman sues to challenge state’s abortion ban in historic case
A Kentucky woman who is pregnant but does not want to be is suing Attorney General Daniel Cameron and others in Jefferson County Circuit Court to challenge the state’s near total abortion bans, the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky.? The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, said in a statement that “I am […]