abortion

Kentucky outlawed nearly all abortions last year. So now Kentuckians have to go to clinics in other states, like Illinois, Indiana and Virginia, to legally access abortion.

Abortion is still legal in Indiana but almost totally outlawed in Kentucky while lawsuits challenging the states’ abortion bans make their way through court.

Louisville Republican Rep. Jason Nemes filed House Bill 569 which would add rape and incest exceptions to Kentucky’s abortion bans as long as the “probable gestational age” of the fetus is less than 15 weeks

Kentucky became one of the first states to block most abortions following the United States Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Kentuckians could be charged with murder if they get an illegal abortion under a bill filed in the state legislature this week.

Kentucky’s attorney general is asking two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains not to distribute abortion pills by mail. CVS and Walgreens plan to make the drugs available to consumers after gaining approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Democrats in the Tennessee General Assembly are fighting back against the state’s total abortion ban that went into effect last year. Members of the party presented a new bill Tuesday called the Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act. But any legislation will be impossible to pass without Republican support.

With a new chief justice and two new members on the seven-person court following last year’s general election, there’s still no clarity over whether the temporary bans on abortion could be lifted or kept in place.

Following the defeat of an anti-abortion constitutional amendment in Kentucky, reproductive rights hang in the balance of the state Supreme Court and anti-abortion lawmakers are trying to figure out how to regulate abortion going forward.

Continued enforcement of Kentucky’s near-total ban on abortion now hangs in the balance of the state Supreme Court.