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Abortion rights advocates hope Kentuckians will follow Kansas’ lead and defeat a constitutional amendment that would undermine access.
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It will still be a month or more before abortions are available within a three-hour drive of Nashville.
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Planned Parenthood’s Louisville health center, which provided abortions until recently, will remain open for other health care needs and to help patients navigate abortions in other states.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court denied a request for emergency relief to block the state’s abortion bans from going into effect.
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The Kentucky Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay Monday that allows Attorney General Daniel Cameron to enforce two of the state’s near-total abortion bans. The decision reverses a temporary block against the laws.
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Abortion is illegal again in Kentucky. The state court of appeals granted Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s request to enforce Kentucky’s ban on abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy and “trigger law,” which outlaws the procedure in most cases.
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In other states, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union or abortion providers have brought lawsuits to try to stop or slow trigger abortion bans. But, we’re unlikely to see that type of challenge in Tennessee.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, the decision overturning Roe v. Wade. That starts the clock on Tennessee’s so-called trigger law.
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A judge has granted a temporary injunction blocking Ky.’s trigger ban on abortion and six-week ban, for the duration of a circuit court case.
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Kentucky grassroots organization “No Laws in Our Bodies” hosted a panel Tuesday that included Democratic state Sen. Karen Berg.