Governor Andy Beshear has vetoed House Bill 90.

A bill Republican lawmakers said would clarify medical exceptions to Kentucky's near-total abortion ban enacted in 2022.

The bill says doctors have to make, quote, reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of the unborn child.

It says doctors can intervene to remove molar and ectopic pregnancies, manage miscarriages, treat sepsis and more.

But critics of the bill, including the governor, said it creates confusion rather than clarity.

Here's a quote from the governor's veto statement.

Quote House Bill 90 creates an exhaustive list of specific emergency situations in which abortion may be provided to save the life of the mother.

The bill is silent on any other emergency situations.

No one, including legislators, can possibly create an exhaustive list of emergency situations that may occur at a hospital or medical facility.

Gaps in the law are literally a matter of life and death and quote.

On Monday night's Kentucky Tonight, we heard from those who lobbied for and against the measure.

The most important thing was to make sure to give clarity to those conditions, those medical conditions, the different types of of spontaneous abortions we would call a miscarriage, intentional miscarriage.

To spell those out.

Sepsis.

You know, no patient.

When someone said to me they had a doctor that was so concerned that he was waiting for his temperature or his patient to spike a temperature when she was threatening a miscarriage.

That should never happen.

And we don't want that to happen for any woman in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

So there was a lot of discussion on what was the most important to address at this time at this.

These problems existed.

We came to you back in 2022, and we said the doctors told you that the omnibus anti-abortion bill, the trigger ban, all the bands that were moving, then we're going to cause these problems.

You didn't listen to us then.

You didn't bring us into those conversations.

You flat out ignored the science and all the statistics.

The doctors, the same doctors are telling you now that this isn't going to work.

And actually, the legal changes on how that they can defend themselves in court are going to make it harder and kill them.

And you're not listening to people guess, because one of the most important things we did here was to make sure reasonable medical was included.

And that makes it objective.

And it's exactly what makes it worse for them.

And when we look to other states that have it, let's take Texas, for example.

Texas uses that same practice.

And it was it has been what stopped them from being able to provide abortion care in life threatening, life saving cases.

You can see more of that robust conversation online on demand at CT Dawgs K-Y tonight.

We have reaction to the governor's veto from both Planned Parenthood and the Family Foundation.

Here's a statement from Planned Parenthood Alliance advocates.

Quote, House Bill 90 was never about clarity or compassion.

It ignored medical standards, use anti-abortion rhetoric like maternal fetal separation, and would have forced doctors to delay care during medical emergency.

By vetoing this bill, Governor Beshear put patients over politics and protected Kentuckians from needless suffering, unquote.

And from the conservative Family Foundation, they say, quote, Governor Beshear shameful veto of House Bill 90 proves that he's just a mouthpiece for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.

Rather than protecting the lives of both women and babies.

Beshear is apparently only interested in re legalizing abortion on demand and promoting harmful misinformation about Kentucky's pro-life laws.

Hsp90 is a pro mom and pro baby piece of legislation that simply provides clarity to Kentucky's existing pro-life laws to protect maternal health and, quote.