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A push is being made to give more Kentucky women abortion access.
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Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions
Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky's near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday in the GOP-dominated House.
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Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, announced plans Tuesday to file a bill aimed at softening Kentucky's "extreme" abortion ban to include exemptions for survivors of rape and incest as well as woman who have non-viable pregnancies.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in Indianapolis federal court.
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Kentucky law bans abortions except when they’re carried out to save the life of the mother or to prevent disabling injury. It does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana board is set to hear allegations Thursday that an Indianapolis doctor should face disciplinary action after she…
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Two Republican leaders shared their plans for the upcoming legislative session at a luncheon in downtown Louisville on Wednesday.
Indiana’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect.
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The ban was approved by the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature on Aug. 5 and signed by GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb.
The Indiana proposal follows a political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end a pregnancy.