
State's Abortion Landscape Two Years After Roe v Wade is Overturned
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State's abortion landscape two years after Roe v Wade is overturned.
Advocates on both sides weigh in on the state's abortion landscape, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion.
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State's Abortion Landscape Two Years After Roe v Wade is Overturned
Clip: Season 3 Episode 17 | 4m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Advocates on both sides weigh in on the state's abortion landscape, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion.
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It's been 2 years since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion.
Shortly after that abortion became illegal in the state.
But some can talk.
INS are still fighting for reproductive freedom and getting the procedure elsewhere.
Kentucky additions June Leffler has more on the state's abortion landscape.
According to advocates on both sides of the issue.
>> Louisville's and W surgical centered was the last standing abortion clinic in Kentucky.
>> Now one of the center's co-founders calls on lawmakers and citizens to bring abortion access back.
>> Today were gathered with medical professionals, advocates and allies.
The launch a new statewide campaign.
Aimed at raising awareness about the dire consequences of these restrictive abortion bans.
The campaign will feature mobile billboard trucks like the one here today.
As well as 5 World billboards that will go up around July 4.
>> As well as urging Kentuckians to sign up rags calling for an end to the state's restrictive abortion law.
>> Reports from the Pro abortion rights research group, the Guttmacher Institute suggests Kentucky women are still determined to access abortions.
More than 4,000 Kentuckians traveled out of state for the procedure last year.
That's slightly more abortions than were performed in Kentucky in 2020 back when Roe V Wade was still the law of the land.
>> And people that want an abortion will get an abortion.
They are leaving the state for care.
Under duress.
Some people are.
>> Not getting the care that they need.
The extend women are going through to get an abortion tells anti-abortion rights groups.
There's more work to be done.
>> Tremendous amount of lives have been saved and I talk to women every day who made that decision?
to protect the life of the child to children.
Well, after not having access really gave it a second thought.
It's that time waiting time.
At the same time we've been surrounded by states that him that in a bit like Illinois that marketed the state aggressively.
We have drug what icon joined in poor to nurse and those are that are should be Abortion pills into the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
>> Americans living under state abortion bans are still getting abortion medications, though, that carries some legal risks.
Pro abortion rights groups focus on what they say is one of the most dire consequences of abortion bans.
>> Pregnant people hoping to have a healthy baby can be caught in an alarming medical limbo.
Doctors say.
>> Patients have very desire and pregnancy and face complications like premature rupture of membranes that are not compatible with continuing the pregnancy.
They put the patient at increased risk for bleeding infection, sepsis and even death.
And these are not viable pregnancies there too early the status to live.
If borne I counsel them the best I can and you know, in another state, the standard of care would be that your options are to induce or terminate a pregnancy and in in our state, that is not a legal option.
So we can certainly continue to take care of you here and tell you become 6 and then we can intervene or you can choose to go to a different state and access the care that is standard of care everywhere else in the country.
>> That might have an effect on aspiring doctors to medical students are less likely to applied to residency programs in states with abortion bans.
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges for Kentucky July 4.
>> Thank you.
June.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky says it's looking for plaintiffs to sue the state.
The ACLU sued on behalf of a pregnant woman in December.
That suit was dismissed at the ACLU is request when the plane to found out she had miscarried Kentucky right to life says the next national legal battle is ensuring unborn fetuses have
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