Kentucky legislature approves sweeping abortion bill, sending it to governor's desk

[AZProgressive]

(CNN)Kentucky lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a sweeping abortion bill that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restrict access to medication abortion and make it more difficult for a minor to obtain an abortion in the state.

The state's Republican-controlled House on Tuesday passed House Bill 3 in a 74-19 vote. The GOP-led Senate earlier Tuesday had voted 29 to 0 to pass the legislation and had amended the bill to include a 15-week ban, with Republicans and only one Democrat voting in support of the measure. The 72-page legislation now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who has not committed to supporting any of the abortion bills working their way through the state legislature. Were he to veto, the legislature would likely override him.

Earlier this month, Beshear told reporters of the bills: "We'll review each of them." In response to a question about abortion bills that were pending in mid-March, the governor also said that he believes "health care decisions should be between a patient and their doctor."

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[peppertree]

1. These are the SAME people who, when they see a minority baby, they think: "Kill it!"

Hell, occasionally they'll just come out and say it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Andy Beshear is the lone firewall between those malignant repubs and sanity.

I hope he will veto it. Even though the measure will probably survive by being overridden by the legislature.

The ignorant have spoken.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. I am totally stunned that the right to choose is under assault and there's not more outrage

For most of my life I believed that this was the red line for women, that if this right came under attack there would be social upheaval. In Texas, abortion has been banned for all but those who can afford to travel out of state, and it's barely a blip anymore.

I don't get it.

[Demovictory9]

4. I dont either

[mindem]

5. Republicans don't respond to outrage anymore

unless it is their outrage. They don't even follow the law if it is inconvenient for them.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I think the Choice crowd is waiting on the SC's decision

Until that is published the state legislatures are just posturing. But if Stella and The Boys overturn Roe, I think you'll see the real outrage. State legislatures have been pulling this bullshit for years but it has gone nowhere.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Texas has never been done before

And these laws are in effect right now, the SCOTUS hasn't halted them until they rule.

I don't think some people appreciate how the right to choose has given women in our country the chance to make their own lives and control their own destinies. Losing that right dooms millions of women to poverty, to being under the control of their child's father for years. It sentences women to servitude in some ways. It's also horrible for unwanted children and for society as a whole.

[Buckeyeblue]

9. I agree with you. Unless you are in your 70's you have really lived in world without Roe

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. A lot of people think they'll be able to dodge these laws somehow, that their whiteness or class

or other relationship with power will help protect them. And some of them are right. Some of them are wrong. The problem is, they won't know until the moment comes.