LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new bill in the Kentucky House seeks to strengthen the state’s already strict abortion laws.
Filed by State Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, House Bill 646 would classify abortion-inducing drugs as a controlled substance and charge people who bring them into the state.
The bill would let law enforcement charge people with trafficking a controlled substance who “knowingly and unlawfully prescribes, distributes, supplies, sells or traffics in any quantity of an abortion-inducing drug.”
HB 646 includes a carve-out, stating that pregnant women in possession of an abortion drug could not be charged with possession of a controlled substance.
“The bill increases certain penalties to the felony level. That is intentional and appropriate,” Addia Wuchner, executive of Kentucky Right to Life, wrote in a statement to Spectrum News. “When individuals knowingly import or distribute pharmaceuticals whose intended purpose is to end human life in violation of Kentucky law, the consequences must reflect the seriousness of that conduct.”
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