Amendment Vote Could Drastically Change Kentucky Abortion Access

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Secretary of State Michael Adams, an anti-abortion Republican, said that it's hard to make much out of one month of a change in the data.
56% : PKA has major funding support from Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union, and close to 90 people who list themselves as physicians have also donated nearly $53,000 to defeat the constitutional amendment.
53% : "The fundamental right for a woman to control her own body, free from governmental interference, outweighs a state interest in potential fetal life before viability," Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry wrote in his ruling.
50% : The crux of their challenge hinges on the claim that access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care, which includes abortion, is a protected right under the Kentucky Constitution.
48% : It is coincidental that the question of whether to revoke any right inherent in the constitution comes before voters now, when tensions over abortion access in Kentucky have reached a fever pitch, and as the Kentucky Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether abortion is an inherent right protected by the state constitution.
46% : Here's how the question will be worded: "Are you in favor of amending the Constitution of Kentucky by creating a new Section of the Constitution ... to state as follows: to protect human life, nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion?"
44% : If the constitutional amendment passes, it will narrow, or potentially eliminate, state Supreme Court justices' ability to read the Kentucky Constitution as containing a right to abortion.
41% : Both laws were promptly challenged in court by Kentucky's two outpatient abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center.
40% : And the GOP nationwide is relying much less on messaging surrounding abortion now that the courts system does not provide the baseline access that Roe v. Wade did.
39% : The second question, Constitutional Amendment No. 2, will ask voters if they want to change the wording of the Kentucky constitution to make clear there is no protected right to abortion.
29% : But if Kentucky's laws restricting abortion are legally challenged, courts could not interpret a right to abortion as existing within the constitution, because the amendment plainly states it is not a protected right.

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