Wed Nov 9, 2022 – 8:26 pm EST
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — A ballot proposal in Kentucky aimed at clarifying the state constitution doesn’t protect a “right” to abortion failed. The news comes amid a series of disappointing Election Day results for pro-life advocates across the country.
On Tuesday, Kentucky’s Proposition 2, which would have affirmed that the state constitution “does not secure or protect a right to abortion, or require the funding of abortion,” failed by a margin of 47.62% to 52.38%.
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Kentucky already bans nearly all abortions thanks to a trigger law that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the federal “right” to abortion established in Roe v. Wade (1973).
However, Proposition 2 would have safeguarded the state’s pro-life laws in the courts if challenged by pro-abortion groups.
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According to Yes for Life Alliance, a group that backed the proposition, the clarifying language would have stopped “judges from asserting their own preferences over the will of legislators and the
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