Planned Parenthood

The Planned Parenthood regional affiliate serving Kentucky announced the launch of its new Kentucky Virtual Health Center offering reproductive and sexual healthcare options to residents across the Bluegrass State.

Officials with a Planned Parenthood chapter serving six states – including Kentucky – say they have experienced a “significant surge” in demand for permanent and long-acting reversible birth control options following Donald Trump’s election victory earlier this month.

The clinic opened Tuesday

A year after the Supreme Court abortion ruling, advocates say it is “more dangerous and more deadly” to be pregnant in Tennessee

Kentucky laws that outlaw most abortions took effect last summer. The plaintiffs in a major lawsuit against the most restrictive bans are asking a judge to dismiss their case.

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.

With abortion’s legal status in Kentucky being litigated after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade rendered it illegal in nearly every instance in the state, leadership for the state’s abortion funds say they will remain committed to financially supporting people seeking the procedure.

Effective immediately, abortions performed or attempted after 6 weeks are now illegal in the state of Tennessee. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the green light Tuesday morning

The injunction comes almost a month after a judge extended a temporary restraining order that blocked some parts of the sweeping health care legislation.

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.