Kentucky's GOP-Led Legislature Overrides Veto To Pass Sweeping Abortion Restrictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Several states have anti-abortion laws waiting in the wings that would go into effect if it does.
48% : Civil rights groups have vowed to sue, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood.
45% :The Kentucky legislation is the latest Republican effort to hamstring access to abortion across the nation, with some state's passing laws that ban the procedure so early in a pregnancy that many wouldn't yet realize they're pregnant.
40% : The state's two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and EMW Women's Surgical Center, have said they will be unable to continue providing care unless a judge blocks the law.
39% : The Kentucky legislature enacted sweeping abortion restrictions that effectively end access to the procedure, overriding Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto and making the state the first in the nation without legal access to abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.
39% : Oklahoma passed a near-total ban on abortion that was signed by the state's Republican governor this week.
37% : "[The law] does not make abortion illegal, but because of the laundry list of restrictions... abortion providers will not be able to comply," Nicole Erwin, a communications manager for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, told the Lexington Herald Leader.

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