Tag: women’s health
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State Senate panel OKs bill to deny most taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood; Ky. affiliate gave up funding in 2015
Feb. 22 Update : SB 8 passed out of the full Senate with a 31-6 vote and now heads to the House for consideration. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News...
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Bills to ban abortion after 20 weeks, require ultrasound exams pass General Assembly in unusual Saturday session
Editors: The first version of this story was published Friday. It has been revised to reflect Saturday’s legislative action and Monday’s lawsuit. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky....
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House and Senate move bills to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and require ultrasounds; could be law by Saturday
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Republicans passed two major anti-abortion bills out of legislative committees Wednesday, Jan. 4, in hopes of enacting them into law...
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State Supreme Court rejects Lexington abortion clinic’s bid to remain open while it challenges Court of Appeals ruling closing it
The only abortion clinic in the eastern half of Kentucky will remain closed while it appeals the state’s closure of it to the state Supreme Court. The court denied a...
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Women in small-town America aren’t living as long as before; alcohol, drugs, food, housing, jobs, education, pollution to blame
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Those of us who grew up in small rural communities in the 1950s and ’60s expected to have longer life spans than our...
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Bevin administration seeks maximum fines against Planned Parenthood, alleging 23 abortions at Louisville facility were illegal
The administration of Gov. Matt Bevin has filed a lawsuit seeking fines against Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, alleging that it performed 23 abortions without proper authorization in December...
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Female legislator files bill to put restrictions on erectile-dysfunction medications to make a point about men pushing abortion bills
Rep. Mary Lou Marzian Fed up with a string of anti-abortion bills backed by religious conservatives, Democratic state Rep. Mary Lou Marzian of Louisville has filed a bill that would...
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‘Go Red for Women’ events advise them to know heart-disease symptoms, their numbers, family history; and adjust lifestyle
Dozens of supporters showed up at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital Feb. 5 to celebrate the American Heart Association‘s “Go Red for Women” day and learned how heart disease affects women differently than...
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Louisville cancer center will offer new one-day breast cancer treatment for early-stage breast cancer patients
“A Louisville cancer center will be the first in the state to offer a one-day surgery and radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer patients,” Boris Ladwig reports for Insider Louisville. This...
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New Planned Parenthood clinic in Louisville suspends abortions after order from Bevin; anti-abortion bills abound in legislature
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky started offering abortions for the first time in Kentucky Jan. 21, but stopped a week later when Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration raised objections about...