Jefferson County schools were a topic on last night's Kentucky tonight.

A panel of four Kentucky lawmakers discussed potential topics for the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly, which convenes January 2nd.

Among those topics, abortion.

Will the Republican led House and Senate pass a bill adding exemptions for rape and incest to Kentucky's near-total abortion ban?

You know, but I'm also only one member of a 31 member caucus.

And so to say that we have very diverse opinions on what the right approach is on this very sensitive topic, you know, I think you could say that we probably have 31 approaches to this topic.

We're going to go into our caucus retreat.

And I have a feeling that this is going to be one of those robust conversations where, you know, we see if there is if there's any cohesion about maybe where we're coalescing.

Is there something that we all agree on?

Is there something we don't agree on?

But those are those are conversations that I think, you know, I'm looking forward to because we need to have.

Two of the lawmakers on last night's panel.

This sensitive topic hits especially close to home.

I'm one of those women who who was forced to make a choice that I was not going to live with the birth of my son.

And I've been there and had to make that decision and I made it.

You know, I love my colleagues, but I don't want them making that decision for me.

I might, but in prayer for a moment with my God.

So and he's he's one of the lights in my life, but I've been there in that room and shoes and it it's very impactful.

And that's a decision to be made when your life is on the line and you have other lives that you're responsible for.

It's a pretty heavy thing to bear.

Yeah.

Senator, I thank you for your courage to share that, because I think if we were all so bold that we would realize this is not really a marginal issue.

Just last year, during the election cycle, I had a pregnancy that involved a fetal abnormality and I lost a child.

And I don't want anybody in the General Assembly making that decision for me.

And I think the people of Kentucky deserve better than what we have.

And I think it's time that we respect Kentucky women enough to let them make a decision that is only going to impact them and their family, because not a single member of the General Assembly comes to my home to weigh in on how I raise my family.

And I had to do what I had to do to protect my other child.

You can see more of that discussion online on demand at CNET dot org slash k y tonight.