Kentucky House passes measure to restrict abortions after 11 weeks

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Source: The HILL

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The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday banning a common kind of abortion after 11 weeks of pregnancy.

Reuters reported that the Republican-controlled House passed the bill for a second time, approving changes made to the bill by the GOP-controlled state Senate.

The legislation would block doctors from performing an abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, except during medical emergencies.

About 16 percent of all abortions in Kentucky are performed using the procedure, which is generally used for pregnancies during the second trimester, according to Reuters.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/380557-kentucky-house-passes-measure-to-restrict-abortions-after-11-weeks?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[Midnight Writer]

1. This is only to restrict safe abortions under medical care. Abortions will just move underground.

[ehrnst]

6. They know this. And they think it's a good stick to hang over the heads of women who have

sex for "mere pleasure."

They want the risk of death to be a behavior modification tool for women.

[stopbush]

2. Fucking Christians.

[Matthew28]

4. The Christian taliban

Big government is ok when they can force their religion down your throat.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Why do republicans hate women??

[barbtries]

5. we threaten the patriarchy.

they're afraid. only fear can engender so much hate.

[atreides1]

9. A threat in their minds!

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

--YODA, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

[barbtries]

10. true words.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. We have to take our states back.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. I've noticed that the republican states are competing against each other to be THE state

that overturns Roe v Wade when Trump gets his second USSC nomination.

[Wednesdays]

11. Political theater to rile up the minions

It'll likely be struck down by a court, and so the wingnuts will go ape about "activist judges," motivating them to the polls.

Watch for more junk like this before November.

[not fooled]

12. Yep

Distract 'em with religious crackpottery to keep them from noticing that Kynect has been wrecked.

Too bad that the only kentuckians who suffer losing their healthcare can't be the ones who voted en masse for the orange turd and a puke governor.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. You know what gets me?

What they really hate is that a woman can choose to have an abortion even if the father of the baby wants her to carry the pregnancy to term. Heaven forbid a woman's wishes about what to do with HER OWN BODY should supersecede a man's.

[IronLionZion]

13. GOP really wants to bring more young liberal voters into the world

who will then vote in a way the GOP won't like.

[LittleGirl]

14. VOTE THEM OUT! eom

[riversedge]

16. "Critics have said the latest bill will almost certainly face a legal challenge." Passed both

legislative bodies, not waiting for Gov to sign.








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Since last year, when Republicans took control of the Kentucky House for the first time since 1921, the state’s legislature has passed several measures to restrict access to abortion, including banning all abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Critics have said the latest bill will almost certainly face a legal challenge. Last year, a similar measure passed by Texas lawmakers was struck down by a federal judge.

Similar bans in other states including Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma have also been struck down by courts.

While dilation and evacuation is used in most second-trimester abortions, nearly 90 percent of all abortions are performed in the first trimester, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.