Approximately 53 percent of Kentucky voters have rejected a proposed amendment to the state Constitution granting full autonomy to the state Legislature to legislate on abortion rights, in a setback for the Republican Party on Tuesday’s midterm election ballot.
The results reported by The New York Times indicate that it will be the state Supreme Court that will decide on the legality of the almost total ban on abortion established by the state Congress -controlled by the Republicans- after the historic annulment at the federal level of the recognition of the right to abortion in a Supreme Court ruling on June 24 of this year after almost 50 years in force.
The Kentucky chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has already expressed its satisfaction with the results that overturn «an extremist attempt to permanently ban abortion.»
The Kentucky Supreme Court is hearing a lawsuit against the state’s abortion law and an argument hearing is scheduled for later this month.
