Kentucky effectively suspended legal abortion access on Wednesday as the legislature enacted a sweeping anti-abortion law that took effect right away and forces providers to stop offering abortions until they can meet certain requirements.
Highlights
- Kentucky legislature enacted a sweeping anti-abortion law that took effect right away.
- It forces providers to stop offering abortions until they can meet certain requirements.
- The law imposes requirements that the state’s clinics say make it too logistically difficult and expensive to operate.
- Abortion rights advocacy groups have said they will challenge the bill in court.
- Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, vetoed the bill on Friday, but the Republican-majority House and Senate overrode his veto.
- Republican-led states have been quickly passing ever-stricter abortion bans this year with the anticipation that an impending U.S.