{"id":221990,"date":"2020-04-16T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221990"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:45:13","slug":"kentucky-legislature-passes-two-pro-life-bills-will-governor-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kentucky-legislature-passes-two-pro-life-bills-will-governor-veto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky legislators pass pro-life bills, slam governor for failing to restrict abortion during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two bills have passed the Kentucky legislature, and both have drawn the ire of the abortion industry. While both the state House and the Senate have approved the bills, Governor Andy Beshear has yet to sign them.<\/p>\n

House Bill 451<\/a> would give Attorney General Daniel Cameron the authority to ban abortions<\/a> and enforce abortion restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also classifies abortion as an elective procedure. According to Sen. Whitney Westerfield, this bill wouldn’t need to be passed if Beshear had taken action. “If he would actually step up and do the job he’s been elected to do and enforce his own order, we wouldn’t have to put this language in this bill,” he said to WFPL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AG Cameron likewise said that abortion businesses should be closed during the pandemic. \u201cAbortion providers should join the thousands of other medical professionals across the state in ceasing elective procedures, unless the life of the mother is at risk, to protect the health of their patients and slow the spread of the coronavirus,\u201d he said last month.<\/p>\n