Kentucky is the first state to end virtually all in-state abortions

[Nevilledog]

https://19thnews.org/2022/04/kentucky-first-state-strict-abortion-ban/

Kentucky is the first state where clinics will completely stop providing abortions. The state legislature enacted a far-reaching abortion law Wednesday with so many restrictions, including a 15-week ban, that clinics said they have been forced to stop performing the procedure. The law, known as House Bill 3, takes effect immediately.

The state’s two abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center, will be filing lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. But unless the law is blocked, neither health center will provide abortions, clinic lawyers said. It is not clear if or when the court will respond to the legal challenge.

“There’s nothing in place for providers to be able to comply [with HB 3’s regulations],” said Nicole Erwin, a Kentucky-based spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. “That’s why we would stop providing care. Literally we can’t meet the demands this bill would require.”

It is not clear how the state’s hospitals — which provide a tiny fraction of Kentucky’s abortions — will be affected by the new law.

Beyond the 15-week ban on abortion, under HB 3, the law institutes new regulations for patients who have abortions, including requirements that many patients with abortions file “birth-death certificates.” Physicians who perform abortions also have to report each procedure to the state, along with the method of abortion and substantial biographical detail about both the person who received the abortion and their sexual partner, including their age, race, ethnicity, hometown and health information.

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[IcyPeas]

1. WHAT the actual ****? That last sentence....

Physicians who perform abortions also have to report each procedure to the state, along with the method of abortion and substantial biographical detail about both the person who received the abortion and their sexual partner, including their age, race, ethnicity, hometown and health information.

[SoonerPride]

2. Violation of HIPAA

But what do they care about laws ?

[jmowreader]

6. They're getting soft in their old age

Why not go all the way and require name, address and phone number be provided to the nearest Signs Following church?

And let me guess…proof of negative pregnancy test required to board a Greyhound bus.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

I read these articles about the vicious attacks on women, and I keep replaying Commander Waterford's final scene from the Season 4 finale of "The Handmaid's Tale" in my mind.

Can't imagine why.

[niyad]

4. and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Would you consider cross-posting this in

Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[leftstreet]

5. Where the hell are doctors, nurses, hc professionals?

Why are they standing around doing nothing while elected buffoons dictate to them how they can and can't provide care for their patients?

wtf

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I thought the Governor vetoed this bill.

[Emile]

8. Yesterday it was Oklahoma ? ?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/oklahoma-governor-signs-near-total-abortion-ban-that-threatens-prison-providers-2022-04-12/

[LAS14]

9. Why do they have to stop completely if abortions are legal....

... for almost four months? Is it because of those acccompanying regulations in the last para of the OP?

[Novara]

10. republicans are the taliban

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. No need to compare our terrible culture to others. Ours is terrible on its own.

[Buckeyeblue]

11. So does each miscarriage require a death certificate?

[Baltimike]

12. Kentucky is a welfare state

They take more than they give. This is also true of most of the mid western red states.