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Kentucky's ban bars abortions after cardiac signals can be detected from an embryo, usually around six weeks — often before people realize they are pregnant. Under current law, an abortion...
- This Isn’T Just About Kentucky.
- The Stakes Are High Going Into This Supreme Court Term.
- State Legislatures Across The Country Have Been Undermining Roe Since 1973.
- These Laws Disproportionately Harm People of Color and Low-Income Communities.
The Kentucky law at issue in the Supreme Court case cannot be viewed in isolation. This year, politicians passed a record number of laws restricting and banning abortion — more than 100 this year alone.
In September, five justices turned their backs on the Constitution by allowing Texas’ radical new abortion ban, S.B. 8, to go into effect. The court effectively stripped Texans of their constitutional right to abortion in the dead of night. With a direct challenge to Roe v. Wadeset to be heard this term by the court, the reproductive freedom of peo...
Since Roe was decided in 1973, state legislatures have been chipping away at abortion access, passing more than 1,300 restrictionsthat aim to force people to remain pregnant. Though many have been blocked by courts, too many have gone into effect and created unnecessary barriers to abortion, including laws that prevent people from using their insur...
Because of systemic racism and structural inequality in our country’s healthcare system, abortion restrictions fall hardest on people of color, low-income people, youth, immigrants, LGBTQ people, people in rural areas, and other marginalized communities. Preventing people from obtaining the abortion care they need and forcing them to carry pregnanc...
Dec 1, 2021 · Roe v. Wade is overturned: Here's what abortion laws look like in each state. Kentucky's law had been stalled by a legal challenge. The Supreme Court previously has held that abortion...
Apr 14, 2022 · Kentucky ended virtually all in-state abortions on Wednesday, enacting a sweeping law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts minors’ access to the procedure, and cracks...
Mar 29, 2021 · The Supreme Court on Monday morning again postponed a decision on whether it will review a controversial Mississippi anti-abortion law, but the court indicated it will take up a procedural issue in a separate case on a Kentucky anti-abortion law.
Oct 12, 2021 · EMW Women’s Surgical Center, No. 20-601, concerned a Kentucky law that challengers said effectively banned the most common method of abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy, dilation and...
Apr 21, 2022 · April 21 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Kentucky officials from enforcing a sweeping new abortion law that Planned Parenthood said would force abortion clinics...
