AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children.

Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.

Introduced: February 5, 2025

Last action: February 5, 2025

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This bill would make it a crime for someone outside Kentucky to send abortion-inducing drugs into the state, with criminal penalties and fines for those who do so. It would also classify those drugs as Schedule IV controlled substances under Kentucky law. Women who receive such drugs would have the right to sue the sender in civil court. Who it may affect: people who send or receive abortion-inducing drugs by mail or other means into Kentucky.

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