The only two abortion clinics in Kentucky will be forced to stop providing abortions at least temporarily, while the new law is challenged in court.
Attorneys for the clinics will seek a ruling to block the measure to allow the clinics to resume abortions while the case is litigated, activists said. Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky.
The activists said the clinics will not be able to comply with the new restrictions because the state hasn't set up a regulatory process. The measure takes effect.
The law is impossible to comply with and violates the federal right to abortion, abortion-rights groups said in a news release.
The American Civil Liberties Union will file a suit against the measure.
The chants of abortion-rights supporters echoed through Kentucky's Capitol as the legislature swept aside the governor's veto. The state hasn't set up the registration process for the bill that calls for regulating abortion pills. It would be necessary for women to be examined by a doctor.
That section of the bill is part of a nationwide push by anti-abortion groups to limit the ability of physicians to prescribe abortion pills by telecommuting, and comes in response to the increased use of pills rather than surgery to terminates early pregnancies.
The majority of abortions performed in Kentucky are the result of medication procedures.
The abortion-rights groups said that the measure requires new reporting requirements that violate patient privacy.
The abortion ban is one of the key parts of the bill. Abortions are not allowed after 20 weeks of pregnancy in Kentucky.
The Supreme Court is considering a case that could limit abortion rights and the proposed 15-week ban is modeled after a Mississippi law. If the Mississippi law is upheld, Kentucky's ban would be in place.
A group of abortion-rights supporters chanted "bans off our bodies" at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Kentucky House chamber. Lawmakers on both sides of the debate mentioned the demonstrators, who could be heard in the chamber.
It makes me sick to have to listen to what people are saying.
The House overrode the governor's veto. The measure was sent to the Senate for a final vote. Republicans have veto power in both chambers. The demonstrators moved to the other side of the Capitol as the Senate debated the measure. The veto was overruled by the Senate on a 31-6 vote.
The bill failed to exclude pregnancies caused by rape or incest.
The bill forces those women to be violated again.
The abortion of a baby is wrong according to Kirk-McCormick. I pray that God would spare the life of a child. There is no mercy for that baby.
The strict limits on abortion weren't the only social issues legislation taken up by Republican lawmakers. They used their overwhelming majority to overturn a Beshear veto of their attempt to ban athletes with gender dysphoria from participating in sports. The override votes were won by wide margins in both chambers.
The bill is discrimination in search of children.
The measure would prevent girls and women from playing sports if they are not in the same sex. It would ensure girls and women compete against each other.
Donald Douglas said the athlete wants a fair playing field.
Republican-led states have adopted such prohibitions on trans girls and women, though the culture war-related bans have been challenged in several states as violations of federal law. The Kentucky measure will end up in court according to opponents.
Chris Hartman is the executive director of the Fairness Campaign.
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