Cameron has consistently used his office to oppose abortion access beyond Kentucky’s borders. He, along with fellow Republican attorneys general, led a brief supporting a waiting period requirement in Tennessee in 2021 and signed onto amicus briefs supporting Mississippi’s case in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2021, a six-week ban in South Carolina … Read more
The bills have been introduced in states such as Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Some explicitly target medication abortion and self-managed abortion; some look to remove provisions in the law which previously protected pregnant people from criminalization; and others look to establish the fetus as a person from the point of conception. Read … Read more
In her opinion, Justice Debra Lambert said that Louisville Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry was wrong to halt enforcement of the bans last July and the appeals court was correct to reinstate the bans in August. She did, however, leave the door open to hearing a future challenge on whether “the right to abortion exists … Read more
Women’s Med has performed few abortions in Ohio since the state ban was enacted; most women don’t learn they’re pregnant until after six weeks. The Dayton clinic, a two-story building that blends into its leafy suburban surroundings, has been in business for almost 40 years. Recent days have become increasingly chaotic, workers say. They see … Read more
The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block the state’s near-total abortion ban while it reviews legal challenges to the law. Read more at The Hill
The ruling by a state appeals court judge temporarily lifted a lower court order that had blocked Kentucky’s law, which bans abortion with exceptions only to protect the life or health of the mother, but not for rape or incest. Read more at The Hill
