Women in Mitch McConnell's home state are fed up and feeling the effects of the Supreme Court's hard right turn.
When the Supreme Court struck down federal protections for abortion in June, Kentucky became one of the first states where abortion was outlawed, thanks to a trigger law designed to take effect instantaneously. Medical providers have filed a legal challenge against both the trigger ban and a six-week abortion ban, but Kentucky’s Supreme Court will not hear arguments until after voters weigh in on amendment 2 — and only if the amendment is defeated.
Both campaigns for and against the Kansas amendment were well-organized and well-funded, but in Kentucky, the political coalition Sweet inherited — of national partners like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, along with local groups like Sister Song, Kentucky Health Justice Network, and Granny’s Birth Initiative — is out-raising its opponent significantly.
Those new laws are now complicating the administration of health care in a state where it was already hard to access in many places: More than half the counties in the commonwealth do not have a practicing OB-GYN, 40 percent do not have a pediatrician.
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