Kentucky became the first state on Thursday United States of America She stopped having abortions in her clinics completely., after the enactment of a law with multiple restrictions on voluntary termination of pregnancy. Two clinics that still offer abortions in this southern state were forced to cancel their appointments for the medical service in question on Thursday, as the state’s new legislation went into effect Wednesday night. “We won’t be able to provide abortion services until (if that happens) until the court intervenes,” Nicole Erwin, Kentucky spokesperson for the reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood, which operates one of two clinics in the state, told EFE. Thursday status. Erwin explained that from now on, patients who call this clinic because they want abortion will be able to make their first appointment there, but must then travel to Indiana or other states where they have access to legal abortion for intervention.
Kentucky hospitals perform a very small fraction of abortions in the state — a total of 13 abortions last year — and it’s unclear how the new law will affect them, but the vast majority of such procedures are performed in clinics. Both the Planned Parenthood clinic and the other independent EMW Women’s Surgery Center remaining in the state, filed two lawsuits against Kentucky officials this Thursday trying to get the law to stop immediately in federal court. “This law creates countless new and unnecessary requirements for us abortion providers, many of which we cannot comply with immediately,” says the Planned Parenthood case, which Efe has access to.
The law builds on another law introduced in Mississippi that would ban abortion from the 15th week of pregnancy, and although it has not yet come into force, it has caught the attention of the United States Supreme Court, which will rule this year. he is. Kentucky law also prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of gestation; this is a reduction compared to the 24 weeks envisioned in the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, known as ‘Wade against Roe’. In addition to the fact that the law, known as HB 3, does not contain exceptions for cases of incest or rape, It brings new requirements that clinics cannot meet in the short term due to the lack of facilities.. These requests include that many patients who have abortions fill out “birth-death certificates” and that the doctors who assist them report the status of each intervention, including the abortion method, to specialist media. These details, which doctors must provide, include biographical details of the abortionist and their sexual partner, including race, ethnicity, age, place of residence, and health data. The new law also bans the use of telematic appointments to prescribe abortion drugs, and gives the state greater powers to oversee clinics, in addition to creating a website that publishes the names of all doctors who have performed abortions in the state.
conservative leaders Oklahoma and Florida also approved abortion restrictions this week. In those states, after Texas vetoed six weeks of pregnancy in September.