The bill, which is modeled after a Mississippi law before the U.S. Supreme Court, passed 31-6.
The Louisiana law hasn’t taken effect pending the outcome of the legal fight over the Mississippi law, the group said. Florida lawmakers recently passed a 15-week abortion ban. The governor there previously signaled his support for the proposal and is expected to sign it into law.In Kentucky, lawmakers have voted repeatedly to place more restrictions and conditions on abortion since the GOP assumed complete control of the legislature after the 2016 election.
“So I think it would be better just to wait to see what the Supreme Court does, and then each state can act accordingly,” he added.In voting for the ban after 15 weeks, Republican Sen. Johnnie Turner called it “the most important bill that I will probably vote while I’m down here this session, and maybe while I’m down here as a senator. It’s life or death, and I’m for life.”
Abortion-rights advocate Tamarra Wieder has said the proposed ban amounted to “political theater” in an election year by essentially duplicating previous efforts. Other stringent anti-abortion laws enacted in prior years by Kentucky legislators are stalled while undergoing court challenges, said Wieder, Kentucky state director forIt’s one of two high-profile abortion bills winding through Kentucky’s legislature.
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