2 anti-abortion bills are sent again to Beshear; opponents still say neither is necessary
Two abortion-related bills are on their way to Gov. Andy Beshear’s desk. One would require “medically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment” be provided to any infant born alive, including after a failed abortion. The other gives anti-abortion Attorney General Daniel Cameron new power to provide oversight of abortion care providers.
Similar measures were in a single bill that passed in the last legislative session, but was vetoed by Beshear. Legislators were unable to override him because they passed it too late in the legislative session, but made the legislation a priority in the first week of this session.
House Bill 2, sponsored by Rep. Joseph Fischer, R-Ft. Thomas, would give the attorney general concurrent authority, along with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to enforce the state’s abortion laws.
It also says that under any state of emergency declared by the governor in response to the novel coronavirus, the state cannot deem an abortion to be an “emergent or urgent medical procedure,” as the cabinet has done.
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