{"id":7672,"date":"2022-04-17T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2022-04-17T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T16:07:53","slug":"its-now-practically-impossible-to-get-an-abortion-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7672","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s now practically impossible to get an abortion in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The new law, which goes into effect immediately, will force the state\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/groups-sue-restore-abortion-services-kentucky-84080520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two remaining abortion clinics<\/a>&nbsp;in Louisville to close due to onerous new requirements on doctors, forcing Kentuckians to look elsewhere for abortion care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it comes as Republican-led legislatures across the country are passing seemingly unconstitutional, draconian anti-abortion laws in anticipation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23013308\/supreme-court-roe-wade-abortion-legal-oklahoma-dobbs-jackson-womens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a coming Supreme Court decision<\/a>&nbsp;widely expected to eliminate Americans\u2019 right to an abortion.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23012348\/oklahoma-abortion-bill-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a>, for example, recently passed a law similar to Kentucky\u2019s that imposes a near-total ban on abortions except in cases where the pregnant person\u2019s life is in danger \u2014 though it isn\u2019t slated to go into effect for another few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/4\/14\/23025568\/kentucky-abortion-law-roe-wade-beshear\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/4\/14\/23025568\/kentucky-abortion-law-roe-wade-beshear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The new law, which goes into effect immediately, will force the state\u2019s two remaining abortion clinics in Louisville to close due to onerous new requirements on doctors, forcing Kentuckians to look elsewhere for abortion care.<\/p>\n<p>And it comes as Republican-led legislatures across the country are passing seemingly unconstitutional, draconian anti-abortion laws in anticipation of a coming Supreme Court decision widely expected to eliminate Americans\u2019 right to an abortion. Oklahoma, for example, recently passed a law similar to Kentucky\u2019s that imposes a near-total ban on abortions except in cases where the pregnant person\u2019s life is in danger \u2014 though it isn\u2019t slated to go into effect for another few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,711],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}