By Dave Andrusko
The strongly pro-life Kentucky House Thursday overwhelmingly advanced a proposed pro-life amendment to the state Constitution.
State House Bill 91, the “Yes for Life” amendment, passed on a staggering 76-20 vote, a margin even larger than last year.
If the Senate agrees, “the amendment would be put on the ballot in November 2022 for voters to either approve or reject in a statewide referendum,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal . “The Senate never took up the bill last year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the legislative session was cut short,” Joe Sonka reported.
The language reads
“To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”
In explaining the need for the constitutional amendment Sponsor Rep. Joe Fischer acknowledged a simple truth: some activist state Supreme Courts have “discovered” a heretofore unknown “right” to abortion in the state constitution. Sonka wrote
Fischer has stated the bill is necessary so that judges in Kentucky do not “invent” a right to abortion within the state constitution, claiming courts in other states like Kansas have done so in recent years.
But Rep. Fischer’s statement is not a “claim” but a recognition of what has happened most recently in Kansas. (See here and here.)
West Virginia and Louisiana have passed similar constitutional amendments. Iowa and Kansas are in the process of attempting to do likewise. Kansas’ “Value Them Both” Amendment to the state Constitution which will be on a statewide ballot in August 2022.
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