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Are you in favor of amending the Constitution of Kentucky by creating a new Section of the Constitution to be numbered Section 26A to state as follows: 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? | |||||||||||||
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Kentucky Amendment 2 was a rejected legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, which was voted on as part of the 2022 elections. If enacted, the amendment would have declared that nothing in the Kentucky Constitution could be construed to protect a right to an abortion or public funding of an abortion.[1]
Kentucky was one of six states to vote on an abortion-related referendum as part of the 2022 elections, alongside California, Michigan, Montana, Kansas, and Vermont.[2] This was in the immediate aftermath of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which held that the United States Constitution did not confer a right to an abortion, allowing individual states to permit, regulate, or prohibit abortion. In 2022, Kentucky was the only one of these states with both an active abortion ban and an active abortion referendum. Following the results of the referendum, Kentucky's abortion ban was contested by abortion providers to the Kentucky Supreme Court, which in February 2023 ruled that the providers lacked standing to challenge the state's abortion ban.[3][4] As of 2024, abortions remain illegal in Kentucky.