The Supreme Court has ruled such requirements unconstitutional as it makes it impossible for women, including a child who is a victim of rape or incest, to obtain a procedure in certain areas of the state.” The bill, he said, “requires physicians performing nonsurgical procedures to maintain hospital admitting privileges in geographical proximity to the location where the procedure is performed.
The legislation does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest.īeshear said in a veto letter signed Friday that the legislation is “likely unconstitutional.” Under the bill, the drug can’t be given to a patient without obtaining their “informed consent” at least 24 hours prior, which includes signing a document “created by the cabinet.” House Bill 3 places a number of restrictions on drugs used in a medication abortion, such as mifepristone.
Andy Beshear vetoed a sweeping abortion bill Friday that would have banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricted access to medication abortion and made it more difficult for a minor to obtain an abortion in the state. ET: This story has been updated to include comment from the Kentucky Department for Public Health.Kentucky Democratic Gov. "We are at an alarming place," Beshear said. In Warren County, Superintendent Rob Clayton announced on Monday night masks would be required after roughly 700 students and staff went into quarantine less than a week before the school year was to begin.īeshear stated on Tuesday that "without intervention," the state of Kentucky is on track to see its highest number of hospitalizations in the entire pandemic in two weeks, reported the Courier Journal. Multiple school districts had implemented their own mandates prior to the governor's announcement. "I'm going to have the courage to do what I know is right to protect our children," Beshear said on Tuesday. Scottie Day said, "It should be rare that a child would need to go to the hospital."Īccording to the Courier Journal, several school districts disregarded the governor's pushes for all school districts to require masks, wishing to leave the decision up to the students' parents. "Kids are not immortal," Kentucky Children's Hospital Physician in Chief Dr. At this rate, in two weeks we will blow past our previous peaks." We had a 61 percent increase in number of COVID-19 patients on a ventilator in just one week. We had a 32 percent increase in the number of hospitalized COVID patients in the intensive care units in one week. "We had a 43 percent increase in hospitalized COVID cases in Kentucky in one week. "This is the fastest and steepest rise in cases of the entire pandemic," Stack said. Newsweek was directed to a recent press release that featured Kentucky Department for Public Health Commissioner Dr. "We continue to stress that vaccination continues to be our number one fight against hospitalization, against this COVID rate." "The vast majority of patients that are requiring hospitalization are those unvaccinated patients," said Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative office for Norton Women's and Children's Hospital. On Tuesday, the hospital recorded 10 pediatric patients with COVID-19, four in intensive care and two on ventilators. Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville has seen an uptick in children admissions in the last week alone. "This is how we make sure we protect our children, but this is also how we make sure that they stay in school," Beshear said Tuesday afternoon.Īccording to the Courier-Journal, dozens of Kentucky's school districts are scheduled to start school on Wednesday morning, so the mask mandate comes just in time.īeshear also highlighted that Kentucky is in the midst of one of the fastest surges of COVID-19 cases yet, and on Monday he announced 1,301 new COVID-19 cases, and the total number of cases in the state hit 500,267.Īnd as all states across the country are ravaged by the new Delta variant, children-especially those unable to receive the vaccine-have seen an increase in hospitalizations.ĬOVID-19 is "hitting kids in a way that we haven't seen before," Beshear said. "We're to the point where we cannot allow our kids to go in to these buildings unprotected, unvaccinated and face this Delta variant."- Ben Tobin August 10, 2021
Breaking: will sign an executive order today requiring everyone in child care facilities, pre-K and K-12 schools to wear a mask.
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