Morgan Watkins

3 weeks ago | wkms.org | Morgan Watkins

Republican lawmakers voted late last week to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of House Bill 90, which they say clarifies when life-saving abortions are legal. But it adds anti-abortion language and could subject doctors to tougher scrutiny in court. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting researched how the new changes may affect patients and their doctors. WFPL host Bill Burton spoke with KyCIR's Morgan Watkins about what she learned.

3 weeks ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

Republican lawmakers voted late last week to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 90, which they say clarifies when life-saving abortions are legal. But it adds anti-abortion language and could subject doctors to tougher scrutiny in court. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting researched how the new changes may affect patients and their doctors. WFPL host Bill Burton spoke with KyCIR’s Morgan Watkins about what she learned.

4 weeks ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

When Rep. Jason Nemes started working with Dr. Jeff Goldberg to amend Kentucky’s abortion ban, he thought their effort was doomed. Nemes, a Middletown Republican, said he told the OB-GYN, “Doc, you know, this is about abortion. It’s probably a zero percent chance we can get anything passed. But you’re telling me it’s important, it’s going to save lives.

1 month ago | wvxu.org | Morgan Watkins

Kentucky's open records laws allow a limited exception for law enforcement agencies to deny records for open investigations if that release would harm the agency or the investigation. But in the current version of House Bill 520, that "would" got changed to a "could."The newly substituted bill, which barely scraped through a Senate committee vote Thursday, makes it so that police need only say that disclosing information "could pose a risk of harm," in order to avoid disclosing it to the public.

1 month ago | lpm.org | Morgan Watkins

The Kentucky Legislature voted Thursday to update the state’s strict restrictions on abortion in a way that supporters say will help reassure health care institutions and providers they can legally end a patient’s pregnancy when they’re diagnosed with certain life-threatening conditions. The proposal cleared the legislature the day after it was introduced, and it wasn’t just regular Kentuckians who had little chance to learn about the bill before lawmakers approved it.