Now, in other news, at a time when most abortions are illegal in Kentucky, state lawmakers are now presented with three reproductive health bills.

They're all filed by State Representative Lindsey Burke, a Democrat from Lexington.

Today, she joined members of the ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood to announce those measures for Burke.

It's an issue that hits very close to home.

So when we talk about reproductive health care access in Kentucky, this is a more critical issue than people realize.

This is not about teen moms who've made a mistake.

This is about women and people who want to be mothers, who desperately want to experience being a parent, who don't have access to the care that they need because of the way we have pulled up the the access.

And that's why today I'm here to file three new bills, one I filed last year.

We refer to it as the North Star Bill.

It's a full reversal of all the detrimental legislation that's happened over the last four years.

And it rolls us back to the access that should have and has been available in Kentucky over the last decades.

I'm also introducing what we call the Shield bill.

The Shield bill provides that a parent who has to travel out of state to receive either an abortion or a medication based abortion that she doesn't have to worry about.

Someone in Kentucky pulling her medical records, subpoenaing her, suing her, prosecuting her for taking care of her health and the health of her loved ones.

And it actually waives sovereign immunity so that if the state of Kentucky should do that to any woman who sought medical care out of state, they can be sued for violating that woman's civil rights.

Last but not least, I'm introducing a bill that I also introduced last session to add to the HANDS program, a component on maternal mental health, postpartum depression, and postpartum anxiety.

And to me, it seemed like a glaring omission that in a state where we have high rates of maternal mortality, we aren't talking more about postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression.

So I think this is a very simple way that we can improve the lives of parents and children in Kentucky.

This, to me, should be a very nonpartisan issue.

We actually passed a similar bill last year, and this just takes it one little step further.

Now, the first bill that you heard Burke introduced, the North Star bill, it was filed last session, but it did not advance.