forcing women to have birth is not the beginning of the end. luckily kentucky has a democratic governor. so at least there is a medicaid expansion there and health care for women. however, this is one of the poorest states in the country, the highest poverty rate. i doubt that republicans also passed a bill. did they pass a bill for free preschool to make sure that these children have child care? was there a bill to help mortality or to help anything to do with raising children and making sure they didn t starve, to get free meals at school, anything like that? you re right, joy. the state of kentucky has problems in this area. we have 9% of children in kentucky are being raised by their grandparents, which is in large part due to the opioid epidemic we have. we re number seven in teen pregnancy in the nation. we have some of the worst maternal health care outcomes in the state. and it s worse for women of
achieving one of their biggest dreams. i m joined now by kentucky state representative rachel roberts and rachel bittercoffer. rem presenttive roberts, i want to talk about kentucky. kentucky, i guess, has won the race to the bottom. these states seem to be trying to one up each other to say no, we can be the most restrictive. talk about what that means for kentucky women. so this bill was house bill 3. it was called regularly the abortion omnibus bill. many of us called it the ominous bill. it was a whole bunch of ideas from other states crammed into one bill, with the express purpose of limiting care for women across the state. lawmakers on the floor said it wasn t their express intention to closeclinics, but today women were expecting to have services to be turned away. to be pragmatic here.
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