Health

A Tennessee abortion provider announced earlier this week it was opening a new location in southern Illinois that would serve people seeking abortions from surrounding states, including Kentucky, that could see the possibility of abortion bans enforced later this year.

The number of abortions carried out in Tennessee has been dropping for the last decade as Republicans have imposed more restrictions. At this point, Black women account for roughly half of all the state’s abortions, driving equity concerns as an all-out ban looms.

Gov. Andy Beshear said that if Roe v Wade is overturned, it will mean a near total ban on abortion in the state.

A leaked majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, which has protected abortion rights since 1973.

The modified version will not include provisions abortion providers are already able to comply with.

One of Kentucky’s two providers has resumed abortions up to 21 weeks and six days, following clarification from a federal judge.

The Tennessee Senate voted last week to reform one aspect of a decades-old law that makes it a crime to not disclose an HIV diagnosis to a sexual partner.

Kentucky legislators voted last week to uphold a 70-plus page bill restricting abortion in the state. Two organizations have filed federal lawsuits. WFPL's Aprile Rickert reports.

The groups have filed federal lawsuits to block a more-than-70 page law that went into effect Wednesday in Kentucky.

A majority of Kentucky coronavirus cases are omicron related, between the BA.1 and BA.2 sub-variants.