Abortion Rights Advocates Are Trying To Extend Key Interim Victories
Every state that has put abortion on the ballot has voted to ensure the procedure is protected in some way, including Republican-leaning Kentucky. Voters there rejected a measure that sought to deny any constitutional protections to abortion. Abortions are still banned in the state, but the defeat of the ballot measure could give advocates challenging the law in court an opening to overturn it. If the measure had passed, it would have amended the state constitution to clarify that it does not protect the right to an abortion, effectively making legal challenges to the law impossible....