Abortion-rights supporters in Republican-leaning Kentucky thought they had finally achieved a breakthrough when voters in November defeated a measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion
FRANKFORT, Ky. — — After years of setbacks, abortion-rights supporters in Republican-leaning Kentucky thought they achieved a breakthrough in November, when votersBut their hopes that the state's sweeping abortion ban might be relaxed vanished well before the GOP-dominated Legislature ended its annual session.
In Kentucky, beleaguered abortion-rights proponents had hoped momentum would swing in their direction, only to be left frustrated. Republicans pointed to legal uncertainties surrounding Kentucky's ban that allows abortions only to save a woman's life or prevent disabling injury. That has largely been in place since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion inIn February, Kentucky's Supreme Court refused to halt the law while sending the case back to a lower court to consider larger constitutional questions about whether abortion should be legal in the state.
“I saw it more as the opposing campaign ran a better campaign that scared people into voting ‘no,’” Thayer said. “That’s something I believe in and I’ll fight for," Nemes said in recent days when discussing his bill."But I don’t think there’s a mandate across Kentucky either way” on the abortion issue.
Abortion came up in casual conversations during the session, but House Republicans didn’t formally discuss abortion measures in caucus meetings, said Nemes, a chief House GOP vote-counter who called it a “divisive issue.”
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