Tue Nov 15, 2022 – 9:53 pm EST
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — Kentucky’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday regarding a trigger law that bans abortion statewide. The move comes after Kentucky voters rejected a ballot proposal last week that would have enshrined protections for the preborn in the state’s constitution.
The hearing, which was closed to the public over safety concerns, came in response to a lawsuit filed by Kentucky’s last remaining clinics, the Courier-Journal reported.
The abortionists are challenging the constitutionality of Kentucky’s heartbeat bill and its 2019 trigger law that took effect immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively banning nearly all abortions in the Bluegrass State without exceptions for rape or incest.
The law makes Kentucky one of more than a dozen states to prohibit abortion statewide with only narrow exceptions.
Opponents of the law say it violates a woman’s right to privacy, which they say is implicit in the state’s constitution, while the law’s backers say the constitution contains no protections for abortion.
A week after Kentucky voters rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure, the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed the constitutionality of a statewide ban approved by
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