Election ’22: Protect Kentucky Access says vote ‘No’ on Amendment 2 — it’s too extreme for Kentucky

Modification 2 is simply too excessive for Kentucky. On November 8, we should vote No.

On November 8, Kentuckians shall be requested to essentially change our state’s structure and permit politicians to ban all entry to abortion with no exceptions, together with in instances of rape, incest, and when the well being and lifetime of the mom is in danger. This can be a harmful act of presidency overreach, and to guard our neighbors, pals, and members of the family, on November 8, we should vote No on Modification 2.

Abortion has at all times been a tough subject. Many Kentuckians wouldn’t select to have one themselves. However most of us know somebody who, in some unspecified time in the future, was left with solely dangerous selections, discovering themselves able we’d by no means need to be in, and one we’d by no means decide. Most Kentuckians know somebody who badly wished a toddler however came upon theirs would by no means make it to time period. Most Kentuckians know somebody who miscarried, however wanted medical intervention to forestall sepsis or different issues – medical interventions that might be banned if Modification 2 passes. Most Kentuckians know individual left within the hardest of circumstances, and nearly all Kentuckians have instructed us, time and again, that these selections are between ladies, their households, and their docs.

What we’re threatened with in Kentucky has already occurred in different states, with disastrous penalties. A ten 12 months previous little one in Ohio was pressured to journey to a different state to finish a being pregnant after she was raped. A lady in Louisiana whose little one had heart-wrenching and deadly abnormalities was not allowed to finish her being pregnant at residence, together with her personal docs and in her personal hospital, and was pressured to journey to New York for correct medical care. Simply final week greater than 100 ladies went earlier than the Louisiana state legislature and begged politicians to incorporate wanted exceptions to a complete abortion ban on their particular exemptions record. That can’t and should not occur right here in Kentucky. The precise factor to do on the worst day of our lives is lower than politicians. It’s as much as us.

Over the previous few months since this modification was launched, the Defend Kentucky Entry coalition has gone from one nook of Kentucky to the opposite. Now we have reached voters in 116 counties, and we’ll attain voters in all 120 of our state’s counties by election day. All over the place we go, each city, each neighborhood, each aspect road, we hear the identical message: an abortion ban with no exceptions is simply too excessive, and it’s too harmful. Throughout the state, Kentuckians have instructed us that they imagine – that all of us imagine – that difficult medical selections should be left to ladies, their households, their docs, and their religion.

Over the previous week, our elected officers have provided a distinct viewpoint, one our pals and neighbors have instructed us repeatedly they don’t agree with. Kentucky politicians have revealed op-eds and held press conferences saying that legislators, not docs, ought to resolve who wants medical care. They’ve mentioned that individuals who don’t know ladies and their households ought to have the fitting to make their medical selections for them. They’ve mentioned there must be no exceptions in an abortion ban: not when a toddler is raped, not when a lady might die, not even when a toddler can not survive being born. The day earlier than FEMA functions had been due for our neighbors in Japanese Kentucky who misplaced every part within the current flooding, greater than a dozen lawmakers held a press convention, to not provide assist to flooding victims, to not share assets, however to debate completely banning abortion. Our legislators not perceive our priorities.

This week, legislators instructed us that when dad and mom are dealing with the worst and hardest and most private selections of their lives, they need to be those to make their selections for them. That isn’t what the folks of Kentucky imagine, and on November 8, we’ll go to the polls to inform them so.

These politicians have the media to speak for them. They’ve a bully pulpit. We solely have our votes. However on November 8, we intend to make these votes communicate loud and clear.

On November 8, our proper to our medical selections is on the poll. Whole management for state legislatures over the selections of docs and their sufferers is on the poll. Our capability to care for our personal neighbors, pals, and members of the family after they want us is on the poll. On Tuesday, throughout the state of Kentucky, we’ll vote No on Modification 2.

Defend Kentucky Entry is a group of non-profit and group organizations throughout the Commonwealth which might be coming collectively for the aim of stopping and defeating the poll initiative in Kentucky that seeks to finish the fitting to an abortion. Its priorities are: Defeat the constitutional modification; create an setting the place Kentuckians really feel protected to talk about abortion and reproductive well being, and construct a robust motion of Kentuckians to defend reproductive freedom.