The case of three Jewish women challenging Kentucky's abortion ban is now in the hands of a judge.

Arguments in the case were presented yesterday in a Jefferson County Circuit courtroom.

The women from Louisville sued former Attorney General Daniel Cameron in 2022.

They say, according to their faith, life does not begin at conception.

According to the Kentucky land turn, much of yesterday's debate centered on in-vitro fertilization or IVF and whether or not it was covered by Kentucky's abortion ban during the 2024 General Assembly.

A number of bills seeking to protect IVF in Kentucky were filed after an Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos have the same rights as children.

None were passed, and that includes one filed by state Senator Whitney Westerfield.

The Republican has one child as a result of IVF and his wife is pregnant with triplets from the same process.

Still, Senator Westerfield argues IVF is protected in Kentucky because of a different bill that was passed last session.

House Bill 159 protects health care providers from being prosecuted for harming a patient with some exceptions.

Here's Senator Westerfield speaking about the bill on the Senate floor back in March.

But the definition of providers in House Bill 159 is actually broader than the version of the bill that I wrote.

It might be broader still than the version that senator from Jefferson 19 wrote.

And so I think this bill accomplishes that and does so without necessary amendments or changes.

Three Democratic state lawmakers told the Lantern they think Kentucky law is still unclear about IVF.

In the courtroom yesterday, a lawyer for the attorney general's office said the state's position is that IVF is not limited.

In Kentucky.

So the women's rights in this case have not been violated.

The judge said he will work to issue his ruling quickly.

Either way, both sides are expected to appeal.

Governor Andy Beshear is taking his message about abortion rights to a neighboring state.

The governor will head to Tennessee next month to speak out against that state's abortion ban.

Beshear will be in Nashville for an event called Championing Championing Reproductive Freedom.

And he will be joined by Hadley Duvall.

That's the young woman who appeared in a campaign ad for Governor Bush's reelection last year.

An ad that criticized Republican candidate Daniel Cameron and the Kentucky law that does not allow abortion in cases of rape and incest.