Kentucky Bill Proposes Exceptions to Abortion Ban for Rape, Incest Cases
Introduced by a Republican lawmaker, the bill aims to modify the state's strict abortion restrictions by allowing exceptions in specific circumstances.
- Legislation introduced in the Kentucky House seeks to ease the state's near-total abortion ban by creating exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
- Republican state Rep. Ken Fleming filed the bill on the last day for new House bills to be introduced in the current session.
- The proposed exceptions would permit abortions up to six weeks after the first day of the woman's last menstrual period for cases of rape, incest, removal of a dead fetus, or lethal fetal anomaly.
- Physicians performing abortions under these exceptions would be required to document the circumstances surrounding the procedure.
- The bill's introduction follows a year in which abortion was a central issue in Kentucky's gubernatorial campaign, with the state's Supreme Court refusing to strike down the existing ban.
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