Abortion
House Republican Whip Jason Nemes proposes exceptions to Kentucky’s abortion ban
House Majority Whip Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, filed a bill Wednesday that would add exceptions for rape and incest to Kentucky’s near-total ban on abortion. House Bill 569 also would allow for abortion when “necessary” — defined as when “there is reasonable medical judgment that there is definitive evidence that the unborn child the pregnant woman […]
Democratic lawmaker introduces bill to restore abortion access in Kentucky
FRANKFORT — Pointing to a November vote in which Kentuckians defeated an anti-abortion constitutional amendment, a state representative proposed legislation Wednesday to restore abortion access.? Rep. Lindsey Burke, D-Lexington, acknowledged the difficulty in getting her bill heard.? The Republican supermajority is “not interested in bipartisanship,” she said while criticizing the lack of Democratic bills heard […]
Kentucky Supreme Court keeps abortion ban in place
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled against an ACLU request to uphold an injunction that had briefly reinstated access to abortion in Kentucky.? That means the commonwealth’s six-week abortion ban will remain intact as the case is litigated.? The high court decision came down Thursday more three months after arguments on the issue were heard […]
Suspect science and claims at center of abortion-pill lawsuit
Emergency rooms across America are teeming with women and girls bleeding from abortion drugs in such copious amounts that it’s exacerbating the national blood shortage.? Or, at least, that’s the grim – but false – narrative a group of small conservative Christian medical associations have painted for a federal judge in Texas. Their mountain of […]
Kentucky nurse volunteered at anti-abortion pregnancy center, discovered infection control problems
At 52, Susan Rames was looking for a way to give back. She worked part time at a Kentucky hospital as a postpartum nurse and, with her three children nearly grown, she had some extra time during the week. Motivated by her Christian faith, Rames decided to volunteer at ALC Pregnancy Resource Center, a crisis […]
Kamala Harris takes pro-choice message to Ron DeSantis’ ‘free state of Florida’
In a direct challenge to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to his back yard Sunday to announce that President Joe Biden was signing an executive order designed to guarantee access to abortion rights, including abortion-inducing medications. During a roughly 20-minute address in Tallahassee marking what would have been the 50th anniversary […]