A new bill filed today would restore abortion access.

And Kentucky State Representative Lindsey Burke, a Democrat from Lexington, co-sponsors of the bill.

She and Planned Parenthood Alliance advocates of Kentucky say the bill will allow the state to go back to where it was once and where she says it should be again when it comes to abortion rights.

This bill simply unwinds the heavy handed and overbroad restrictions that have been imposed in recent years.

It puts decision making back into the hands of the people who are affected.

The bill does not venture into new territory.

It simply restores us to the laws that were here for the majority of the late 20th century and the early knots in a state where maternal and infant health are at a crisis point, where health outcomes are full of disparities based on race, income and location, where an unthinkable and unreasonable number of children are in foster care.

This bill will restore some balance.

The truth is, our care cannot wait.

Representative Burke's bill takes Kentucky back to a place where health care is in the hands of the experts, not politicians, where patients aren't forced to flee from their state for health care, where dignity is restored.

This could be a reality.

One that has state wide support.

All we have to do is look back to the referendum in November.

People all across the Commonwealth came together during the midterms and rejected a constitutional amendment that would have denied abortion access permanently in our own state constitution.

And we voted no.

They did so because abortion is health care.

It isn't a partizan issue.

Kentuckians across the political spectrum voted no on Amendment two and now this.

And that is why this bill should get a hearing.

Let the provider speak.

Let the patient speak.

Give it its due.

Legislators here are at the will of their people.

And when it comes to abortion access, the people have been loud and clear.

Last week, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled the state's trigger law and six week abortion ban will remain in place.

It sent the cases back to a lower court for further consideration.