with a little bit as well.

So there's that little bit better.

>> A police chief chokes back tears as a community says goodbye to another officer gunned down in the line of duty.

Kentucky's abortion debate continues on the streets and in the courtroom.

>> I think the main thing that people here seem to be concerned about the price of things.

>> Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on what Kentuckians are telling him.

>> And then go use this geranium like pain that so many of his paintings.

So so many of his paintings do not look like he added originally intended.

>> And Vincent Van Gogh's paintings have changed.

And a professor from Kentucky is using chemistry and technology to figure out how they're supposed to look.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the Kaye E T and Aument for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the Kaye E Team Millennium Fund.

Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Wednesday, July 6th.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending part of your evening.

>> With OSS abortion remains legal in Kentucky.

As last night the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld an appeals court decision to allow abortions to go forward temporarily.

All of this began June 24th when the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Roe v Wade decision from 1973 that made abortion legal nationwide with the court's decision last month.

Abortion automatically became illegal in Kentucky because of a 2019 trigger law.

The only exception is for the health of the mother.

The ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the Emw Women's Surgery Center in Louisville then sued saying the abortion ban violates the right to privacy in the Kentucky Constitution.

A Jefferson County judge then temporarily allowed abortion to resume an appeals court.

And now the state Supreme Court have backed that decision.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron who backs the band says he is disappointed in the court's decision so far.

All of this comes as Kentucky's 2 abortion clinics went to court seeking an injunction to keep abortion legal while the course while the case continues in the courts and Louisville today, Circuit Court Judge Mitch perry her testimony on the temporary restraining order blocking Kentucky's abortion ban.

Attorneys representing Kentucky's 2 abortion clinics and lawyers representing the attorney general's office had 2 witnesses, each.

The first witness called to the stand was an OBGYN who performs abortions at Louisville's Emw Clinic.

Doctor Ashley Bergen says abortion is essential medical care and that statistics show that having an abortion is less dangerous than pregnancy.

Lawyers for the attorney general's office asked Doctor Bergen how she perceives abortion.

>> Which would you agree with me and abortion is a procedure that ends pregnancy.

>> Yes, abortion does end a pregnancy.

>> And so that abortion is done after the 8 week or so when the baby has developed a heartbeat, even agree that abortion in every case actually stops a beating heart.

You.

>> View it in those terms.

I think that's how some people view it.

But that's not high.

Really how I really do it.

>> But scientifically and biologically, that's the only way to view it as a doctor.

That's ahead.

Watch it.

That's the only way right that you just testified that the fetus has its own party weeks.

That abortion ends that pregnancy and the end of the pregnancy stops that beating heart of the baby.

Every case right?

So.

>> Also testifying, a prolife OBGYN who said abortion was not health care and she believes it ends a human life.

She was cross examined by the lawyers for the abortion clinics.

>> Yes, and I'm simply put aside the exceptions in the statute.

So aside from life in danger, mentor, substantial impairment and your first ball, a judge will determine of a major bodily function, putting those exceptions aside unless a patient is eligible for one of those exceptions and she faces risks of her pregnancy.

She's not able to make the decision to have an abortion.

If these laws take effect.

>> I think the question really comes down to what is the value of people out?

Do you feel like it's I and say this, if the values, you know, life is if there is value to see the light.

Its destruction is problematic.

>> That is your moral belief cracked.

>> No, I think said that we're not talking about the fetus as a person.

You talk about the sensation it.

And I think that it's generally situation where the destruction of patients being.

It's it's it's something that is not considered the side of good.

>> I'm going to try the question In the circumstance that we're talking about here.

We're here today because Kentucky is banning abortion.

Absolutely.

From the sport.

Absent to be.

Exceptions, which are like an danger mentor substantially reversal of impairment of a major bodily function.

If a patient develops the condition that doesn't meet the criteria and decides that she wants to end her pregnancy.

Perhaps she doesn't share your view of destruction of a a of life.

And as you just put it, she's not able to make the decision to have an abortion under this.

>> I think you're asking me for hypothetical and I'm not sure which you can give me a specific example.

All she had to tell you condition and I can talk about a typical path way, but I don't have a ways.

>> Also called to testify at the hearing and economics professor from Texas Anm who says Kentucky's abortion ban wouldn't just reduce abortion access.

He says it would impose costs on the states vulnerable populations.

>> There will be serious cost for Kentucky.

Ends, including financial hardship, educational and professional harms physical and emotional harms to psychological harms.

And and finally, these costs will be disproportionately borne populations.

They're low income people and people of color.

>> Judge Perry did not make a ruling in the case today.

He set the next court date for July 18th.

In the wake of the Roe reversal, the BG Freedom Walker's held a protest last night in Bowling Green.

Protesters gathered at a downtown park before marching to the Warren County Justice Center.

>> This is our 3rd protest this past week.

I'm standing up for women's rights.

What in the community to come together in support and solidarity and for the community to share their stories and their >> I spoke about a personal with a miscarriage that I didn't realize at the time in medical records would be labeled as an abortion.

And I think that there's a lot of people, especially in our state that don't realize the legal terminology of abortion and what that means and they don't realize the implications of the law and how is that going to affect them?

>> It's going to fit every American.

>> It might not right now, but eventually it will.

But you have a family member or wife or sister all that.

It could fit.

>> I have a lot of people in my family that are Democrat or Republican pro choice and pro life.

And the reality is this law is >> wrong.

For all the definition of abortion and the law is not adequate.

And additionally, the punishment is not on the pregnant women that are receiving the abortion, but rather they're trying to go after the doctors for performing them.

And if the doctor feels that in their under for do no harm that they cannot adequately provide care in the state of Kentucky.

They may be inclined to leave.

>> And so this is not just something that affects women of childbearing age, but this is something that could affect women all across the country of all different ages.

If it was one of our daughters and mothers are this taste or anybody out there that were close to?

>> That would need an abortion, an emergency What if they got raped or anything happen to them and says.

>> Then if it it's extremely important to be loud and to make some noise.

I think if we stay silent, then that's just as bad as creating some of these laws that may have these unintended ramifications.

I think it's important to educate people on what the law is educate people on how they can safely disagree on how they can express their own >> Even though we have the temporary ban from the Louisville judge, we still need to keep fighting until these rights are restored for women nationwide.

There's different people from all walks of life at this event.

There's children, their letter old.

There are people that are young people that are childbearing age and even in this group, we have different belief systems.

We have different beliefs on who should be entitled to an abortion or how you know what point of viability.

But the reality is we have so much more common ground than we do disagreeing.

>> It takes all of us and using your voice is very powerful.

>> Now on to other news, another emotional funeral today in Floyd County after the murders last Thursday of a sheriff's deputy, a police captain and a police officer and a canine.

The funeral yesterday for Deputy William Petri was held.

He died along with Captain Ralph Frasier Officer Jacob Chaffins and a police dog.

The Floyd County Sheriff's Office says a gunman shot all of them as they responded to a domestic situation in the community of Allen.

Today, the funeral for Captain Ralph Frasier.

A law enforcement officer for 39 years.

Speakers including Prestonsburg Police Officer Randy Woods remembered.

Captain Fraser is a teacher who always did what was right a man with a great sense of humor and dedicated to children and his fellow officers.

>> Their own 15, 13 says greater love has no the delay that his love for his freedoms.

The real through.

So there's that little bit.

But a little bit or just wanted to leave too.

Law enforcement.

To know that we have friends.

There's always going back.

The one time to get to.

Somebody is going to.

The book of Jonah reads.

So You Want Love.

The father has bestowed on those.

That we may be called the children of God.

Yes, so we are.

So it was We give things to are going for was gone.

The little girl from into the mixed.

What is Thursday?

>> Officer Shay Funds funeral is scheduled for tomorrow.

Police accuse Lance Stores in those shootings.

He's in jail in Pike County on a 10 million dollar bond charged with murder and attempted murder.

Another deputy, a constable and an emergency management director were also wounded.

Kentucky's COVID positivity rate has jumped again.

It's now 15.75%.

According to numbers released late yesterday.

That's up 13.0.

36 1% a week earlier.

But even as cases have increased hospital and ICU numbers have remained low.

43 counties are in the red or high category or category for case numbers.

According to the state map released last week.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul speaking in Glasgow this morning says Kentucky hands.

He's talked to are more concerned about the economy.

Then gun violence.

He held a town hall meeting at the barren County Farm Bureau office.

Paul addressed concerns including inflation and high gas prices.

The senator says he believes inflation will either continue to worsen or interest rates will rise high enough to help trigger a recession.

We also took the opportunity to ask Senator Paul about gun violence in our country.

And if he would like to see Congress reconsider an assault weapons ban.

>> I think the main thing that people here seem to be concerned about the price of things.

I mean, these are farmers there.

Fertilizer prices are doubling.

Their diesel prices are doubling.

And so there's a real problem here with our food supply.

And I think their main concern is that I didn't hear from them anything about to other discussions such doing something to restrict the Second Amendment.

Most of them here in the comments that came out to talk to me this morning from farmers were that they support my work on the Second Amendment.

>> When it comes to fuel cost, Paul says he would like to see the U.S. build a refinery and also left regulations to drill more oil in Alaska.

We know more tonight about money raised by candidates for governor in 2023.

Governor Andy Beshear raised 1.1 million dollars in the 2nd quarter of 2022. giving him a total of 3.5 million dollars.

According to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The newspaper says Agriculture Commissioner Ryan corals raise $574,000.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron raised 300,000 state Representative Savannah Maddox raised 110,000 and state Auditor Mike Harmon raised 43,000 retired attorney Eric Deters who switch from Republican to independent raised 66,000.

We'll talk more about the governor's race.

Candidates, cash flow and our regular midweek segment with journalist y Lynn Barton coming up in just a few minutes.

And for amid we check in on Kentucky politics, we hear now from Rye Lynn Barton, managing editor of Kentucky Public Radio and Ohio Valley Resource.

We talked about the abortion ban in state court in the latest fundraising numbers in the Republican race for governor and a possible GOP appointment by President Biden to a federal judgeship in Kentucky.

>> Right.

And it's good to see you and check in with you again on Wednesday.

>> I run and I see you too.

>> So lots to get to what start with the developments and state court today on abortion.

We know that at the time we had our discussion, which is about 10 minutes until 3 this afternoon, there was still testimony on the trigger law.

So what do we know about that?

And can we expect any kind of decision today or in the days to come?

>> Right.

So this is the this is the hearing over whether to continue to block the abortion ban in Kentucky from going into effect.

There's a lawsuit over this filed by the states to abortion providers, both in Louisville.

It's the laws have been tear.

The abortion has been temporarily blocked.

They want to extend a little bit longer while this lawsuit takes place.

This this morning Wednesday morning and will continue probably over the next couple days.

So far they've been taking testimony from an abortion provider and also to export and an economist who's kind of step of the abortion issue and how a a total ban would affect people and who it would affect most.

So the judge is hearing this and will be coming out of decision in the next few days next week.

And there's not a there's not a real hard deadline on this.

So seeing.

>> And we know that that the Attorney General Daniel Cameron hasn't been really successful in his own, pushing his own case to the state Supreme Court.

>> Yeah, he's been trying to appeal that decision that temporarily blocked the the banned from going to affect up Kentucky's appeals process of the state Court of Appeals and then the state Supreme Court.

Both of them have refused to strike down that block.

So this lawsuit just going to go forward with without the those abortion bans from going into effect.

>> And no timeline on when there could be a decision rendered on this.

>> No timeline that I know there might be people who get paid a little bit better than I do know >> Well, let's make a hard pivot and talk about the gubernatorial race of 2023.

We have some fundraising reports that came out today and it looks like the current AG Commissioner Ryan corals is leading the pack when it comes to fundraising.

Tell us about this.

>> Yeah.

Right now the top 3 Za Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has raised about a little over $500,000 in the first 2 months of his Attorney General Daniel is coming in second with a little over 300,000 and then state Representative Savannah, Maddox race a little over 100,000 in the last few weeks and she's you know, there there are still some questions as to whether a former UN Ambassador Kelly Knight Craft will get into the race.

That would certainly mix things up.

She is would likely be very well going into this race.

And she's really been Moore was campaigning for this already, although she hasn't officially announced over the last year.

So she's been kind of traveling around Kentucky trying to get her name out there.

So there's there's still a lot in flux here.

And this is just on the Republican side of the equation.

We're we're looking at this big, crowded primary that will take place next.

May and all these Republicans are vying for the chance to run of Democratic governor incumbent Andy Beshear without city's race.

A little over a million for his reelection.

so there's right since his last filing deadline.

So there's a lot of money that's getting poured into this race.

Republicans think they've really got a good chance here.

And Democrats are really trying to lock down on the one statewide elected official that they have in Kentucky.

>> Yeah.

And so the governor, Andy Beshear is for the 3rd straight quarter over a million dollars.

He's got a total of 3.4, 8 Million.

Pretty good.

Now.

Want to go back to Kelly Kraft because many had assumed that she would have announced at the end of June.

Now there's speculation.

Will she do it at Fancy farm before fancy farm after fancy farm.

Is there any intel on the timing of a possible announcement from the former UN ambassador?

>> Yeah.

The the summer before the the year of the campaign is always kind of.

That's when everybody starts getting into the race.

Usually of before fancy farm would would be an opportunity to have that.

I mean thing we have to remember things are a awkward at this moment.

Former President Trump or former boss came out and endorsed Attorney General Daniel Cameron in this race.

Already.

She of meanwhile appeared at the Kentucky Derby with the former president at the So I mean, I think that's an endorsement that she was going after and something that she's really going to be trying to highlight as she goes into this race.

So there that I think that might have affected the timing a little But yeah, I think we if she's going to get into the race, we could probably expected to happen sometime this summer.

But then there are other candidates waiting in the wings as You know, we're waiting to see former governor Matt Bevin will get and anybody else.

>> Real quickly, let's talk about the possible nomination of a prolife judge, conservative member of the Federalist Society.

Chad Meredith, an attorney by President Biden to serve as a federal judge district judge in Kentucky.

There were e-mails that came out this week from the Beshear administration that I guess substantiated that rumor.

Any more movement on this at this particular point?

>> You know, a little bit at this point, but this is a really I think that's going on somebody, you know, a Republican is getting is getting nominated to be a federal judge in the state that's a Democratic governor and the nominated by the Democratic president of the United States.

And this is some of these you might be getting nominate.

He hasn't just been nominated yet.

I think the timing of all this is very interesting.

That e-mail that those e-mails that were released by the sheer administration show that the White House had notified them right right before the Dobbs decision came down.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision that affects abortion.

really, it's almost it's a different time since that.

But right now, especially because Chad Meredith, this conservative lawyer the Biden administration is considering nominating for this position is really one of his main things is that he's defended so many of the of Kentucky's antiabortion laws under former governor Matt Bevin and now under and then under current Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron.

So I think the optics of this exchange, certainly the Courier Journal's reporting on this breaking that story after the Dobbs decision shone a light, a spotlight on this issue.

And so I think that we're going I think that there's I think the Biden administration may be thinking twice about that nomination, although we do need to think, you know, that the administration thought they were going to be getting something out of this deal.

You know, possibly of moving forward on some judicial nominees, the Biden astray.

She's been having trouble getting through Mitch McConnell r of getting through the U.S. Senate without some help from a minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

So a lot going on in in this political snafu, Kentucky.

Yeah.

>> To be continued and we'll keep following it.

And thank goodness that you are right.

Lynn Barton, and we'll be seeing you again next Wednesday.

Thanks for your time.

>> Beyond Van Gogh, the immersive experience opens in downtown Louisville today.

The goal of the exhibit is to help viewers experience the art work of Van Gogh and a whole new way.

We caught up with the Centre College chemistry professor who discovered that the colors we see on one of Van Gogh's pieces are not the callers.

He originally painted.

>> The opportunity to analyze this think it was absolutely amazing.

And it came about when I was on sabbatical and the conservative that since they are busy and had this question about the pain, he had a look at the letters.

Advantage of a goat is brother Teo these letters to his brother Taylor, who is art dealer are extremely important to understanding what Van Gogh's going for.

There's the sketch of the undergrowth that you think is in their talks about the colors in there.

And he does this for all of this painting is they who described the pain is having flour down a grass, pink, white, yellow and various screens.

And if you look at the painting today, there, no pink flowers in the in the paint.

So they had a question like where the pink flowers and we have the scientific, an analytical techniques to be able to answer that question.

So this field is called technical artistry.

And so it's a combination of science with art history.

So the scientific analytical technique that we use to discover the pink flowers is called X-ray fluorescence.

This X-ray fluorescence analyzer is an elemental analyzer, which means it can tell the elements from the periodic table of was made in the materials were after you shoot X-rays at it.

Each element in the periodic table has a different energy of its X-ray.

And go use this geranium like pain that so many of his paintings.

So so many of his paintings do not look like he had originally intended.

So the pink paint is made of draining a lake which luckily as bromine atoms as a part of it.

And if we shot, that actually is at it.

And we saw the chemical signature growing.

Then we knew that that flower was originally pink.

If we shot after that, it didn't see bromine you that the flower was always liked.

And so we did is we shot that actually, for essence Analyzer at 387 white flowers and the baby.

And so as it turns out, 38% of the flowers and the painting have roaming, which meant that they were originally paying the pink color the light activation, but just in the thickness of half of your human hair below that the pink colors actually still there in the painting.

We actually took a tiny sample of paint from there they go and actually put it under what's called a micro fate or so.

We shine the light right on to the paint.

You can tell how quickly the color change happen.

And we know that the caller would have been a visibly change within 3 years of of him paying it in in sunlight.

And what we then did was we made a digital reconstructions on a computer we digitally put back the color into the 38% of the white flowers that are now paying that you can see.

So the way we use science and technology to bring the undergrowth that he figures paint a live and let people experience the color more closely to what they go.

Ridgley intended.

In an amazing way.

The immersive exhibit is allowing people, Kentucky is to experience this color.

And that right up next to them.

And that's what I was with studying undergrowth that he figures in publishing what it looked like.

Some people could look at it on a computer screen in a similar way and makes the intended colors go just come alive.

Looking at our study.

>> Fascinating beyond Van Gogh.

The immersive experience will be at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville until September.

The second the event is open Wednesday through Sunday.

Each week.

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