Altia Connor, 71, of Louisville, says she remembers a time when pregnant teenagers generally died from botched abortions. She opposes Modification 2.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Abortion has been unavailable for months in Kentucky, and can probably stay so – until activists can defeat an anti-abortion measure on the Nov. 8 poll.
“It’s extremely inflexible and unforgiving as a constitutional modification,” Beth Kuhn, a volunteer for the Defend Kentucky Entry marketing campaign, informed a voter who answered her knock on his entrance door on a current sunny afternoon in Louisville.
Kuhn defined that Modification 2 would add express language to Kentucky’s structure, stating that it provides no protections for abortion rights.
Activists enchantment to state courts
If accredited, Modification 2 would complicate — if not fully thwart – ongoing efforts to overturn two state abortion bans which are at the moment in impact. These legal guidelines supply no exceptions for rape or incest and solely slim exceptions for medical emergencies. They took impact this summer season, after the U.S. Supreme Court docket overturned many years of abortion-rights precedent, together with Roe v. Wade.
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That left reproductive rights advocates with little recourse past Kentucky’s state structure, which they argue incorporates privateness protections that ought to safeguard no less than some abortion entry.
Abortion opponents say they’re placing up hundreds of yard indicators throughout Kentucky in assist of the measure, which might amend the state structure to say it incorporates no abortion rights protections.
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Abortion opponents say they’re placing up hundreds of yard indicators throughout Kentucky in assist of the measure, which might amend the state structure to say it incorporates no abortion rights protections.
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Seeking to Kansas
Now, voters are being requested to weigh in on a measure that will amend the Kentucky structure to explicitly state that it incorporates no protections for abortion rights. And reproductive rights activists are drawing inspiration from Kansas, one other pink state the place voters rejected an analogous effort in August.
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“With the intention to restore entry to authorized abortion in Kentucky, we now have to defeat Modification 2,” says, Rachel Candy, marketing campaign supervisor for Defend Kentucky Entry, the hassle to scuttle the modification. “After which the plaintiffs in these case instances have to win.”
In August, Candy led the profitable effort to defeat the anti-abortion modification in Kansas, the place abortion stays authorized as much as 20 weeks. That vote — in one other conservative-leaning state — shocked many observers.
Candy says right here in Kentucky, the stakes are even larger.
“In Kansas, we have been making an attempt to essentially make an argument about defending the established order and defending the rights that we had within the Kansas Structure,” Candy says. “That is actually about how can we begin reversing the tide of those actually excessive abortion restrictions that we have seen?’
An opportunity to make abortion bans everlasting
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For Kentuckians who oppose abortion, Modification 2 provides a chance to shore up state restrictions for the long run.
Addia Wuchner, govt director of Kentucky Proper to Life, is a pacesetter of the “Vote Sure” marketing campaign. She factors to many years of federal litigation round abortion underneath the Roe v. Wade precedent that legalized abortion nationwide from 1973 till this 12 months, saying she desires to be sure that Kentucky does not see drawn out battles over abortion bans in its state court docket now.
“We have been in 49 years of Roe,” Wuchner says. “Nobody desires 49 years of the Kentucky Structure drug out into this battle.”
Public polling on the poll initiative is tough to return by. However a 2019 survey from the agency Public Coverage Polling discovered {that a} majority Kentuckians assist abortion rights and oppose criminalizing the process.
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Wuchner argues the modification earlier than voters would maintain the state structure impartial on abortion — which her group opposes in just about all circumstances.
“Let’s speak about what [opponents of the amendment] are afraid of,” Wuchner says. “Afraid that they will not have the precise for ladies to take the lives of their youngsters. Do you suppose that is a proper?”
Wuchner notes that right here in Kentucky — as in Kansas — abortion rights supporters have considerably out-fundraised teams who oppose abortion.
However the modification additionally has sturdy assist from highly effective conservative spiritual teams, together with the Catholic Convention of Kentucky and the Kentucky Baptist Conference.
On a current fall Sunday, abortion rights activists gathered to knock on doorways in Louisville on behalf of the Defend Kentucky Entry marketing campaign.
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Echoes of an earlier time
Standing on her entrance garden throughout city, Altia Connor says her religion factors her to a distinct conclusion on the subject of abortion.
“[People] need to reply to God for themselves. However it’s nonetheless their proper … to their physique,” she says.
Connor is standing within the sunshine as a neighborhood activist delivers a yard signal that claims, “VOTE NO — Modification 2.”
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Now 71, Connor was an adolescent within the Sixties — earlier than Roe v. Wade. She remembers women generally taking determined measures once they obtained pregnant — significantly one woman from her church, who died after a botched abortion.
“I am pondering now, as a grownup, that younger woman did not need to die,” she says. “She did not need to strive these selfmade cures … if she’d had one other selection.”
A message to state leaders
As soon as once more, Kentuckians do not need that selection.
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Saundra Curry Ardrey, a political scientist at Western Kentucky College, stated voters have a chance to ship a message to state leaders – particularly Supreme Court docket justices – about the place they stand on the problem. She notes that Kentucky’s Supreme Court docket is ready to rule on the way forward for the state’s abortion bans till after the election.
“I feel they’re ready to see what the desire of the individuals might be,” Ardrey stated. “And I might suspect, too, that quite a lot of the candidates, and quite a lot of the legislators within the state, are additionally seeking to see how pro-choice Kentucky has grow to be, or what the desire of the individuals might be.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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