Kentucky Senate passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Kentucky lawmakers have taken another step toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
Via AP news wire
6 hours ago

Kentucky lawmakers took another step Wednesday toward banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with an eye toward a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion rights.

The bill, which won Senate passage 31-6, is modeled after a Mississippi law under review by the nation’s high court in a case that could dramatically limit abortion rights in the United States. The Kentucky measure next advances to the House. Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers.

By taking preemptive action, Kentucky’s stricter ban would “withstand challenge and be immediately enforceable” if the Mississippi law were to be upheld, said Republican Sen. Max Wise, the bill’s lead sponsor.

Kentucky law currently bans abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kentucky-ap-senate-mississippi-united-states-b2037667.html

[Deuxcents]

1. "All I ask is for them to keep their feet off our necks" RBG

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm thinking more and more about the merits of baseball bat therapy.

[musette_sf]

3. FYYFF

that is all

[SoCalDavidS]

4. America Is Setting Itself Back Several Decades

Other Mature Countries around the World, are going to think of us as a Shithole, that couldn't care less about Women's Rights.

Oh, and classy of KY to do this during Women's History Month.

[secondwind]

5. Why change the law from 20 weeks to 15 ????

Just because they CAN? Is there a contest somewhere for who is the most cruel?

[Jetheels]

6. If a woman is raped in Idaho,

and has an abortion, the rapists family members have an option to collect a bounty from the woman he raped.
Idaho pays for women to be raped.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The REPUBLICAN WAR ON NEIGHBORS

Meddling in everybody's business but their own

[kimbutgar]

8. Maybe we should start calling these states the tailban states against woman's reproductive rights

I hope the women of these states rise up and vote against the republicans in November. Because you know they will go after birth control next and then clothing.