Related Research Articles
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 is a United States law that recognizes an embryo or fetus in utero as a legal victim,if they are injured or killed during the commission of any of over 60 listed federal crimes of violence. The law defines "child in utero" as "a member of the species Homo sapiens,at any stage of development,who is carried in the womb."
Alan Thomas Seabaugh is an American attorney from Shreveport,Louisiana,who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 5 in Caddo Parish.
A six-week abortion ban,also called a "fetal heartbeat bill" by proponents,is a law in the United States which makes abortion illegal as early as six weeks gestational age,which is when proponents falsely claim that a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected. Medical and reproductive health experts,including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,say that the reference to a fetal heartbeat is medically inaccurate and intentionally misleading because a conceptus is not called a fetus until eight weeks after fertilization,as well as that at four weeks after fertilization,the embryo has no heart,only a group of cells which will become a heart. Medical professionals advise that a true fetal heartbeat cannot be detected until around 17 to 20 weeks of gestation when the chambers of the heart have become sufficiently developed.
Raymond Edward Garofalo Jr. is a commercial developer and non-practicing attorney from Meraux,St. Bernard Parish in suburban New Orleans,Louisiana,who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 103,which encompasses primarily St. Bernard Parish and four precincts each from Orleans and Plaquemines parishes.
Andrew Graham Beshear is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd governor of Kentucky since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the son of former Governor Steve Beshear.
Anthony Joseph Bacala,Jr.,known as Tony Bacala,is a law enforcement officer and a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
Attica Woodson Scott is an American politician who served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 41st district from 2017 to 2023.
Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Kotyza-Witthuhn represents District 49B in the southwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area,which includes the city of Eden Prairie and parts of Hennepin County,Minnesota.
Abortion in Kentucky is illegal. There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900,including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998,the state passed legislation that required clinics to have an abortion clinic license if they wanted to operate. By the early 2010s,members of the Kentucky Legislature attempted to ban abortion in almost all cases and had also introduced the early abortion bans. Prior to 2019,Kentucky law prohibited abortions after week 22. This changed when the state legislature passed a law that moved the prohibition to week 6 in the early part of the year. In that year,57% of people in Kentucky said abortion should be "illegal in all or most cases." A bill passed and made effective in April 2022 lowered the threshold to 15 weeks,the second most restrictive limit in effect in the United States behind Texas,and introduced regulations that made abortion illegal until it was blocked in federal court.
Daniel Jay Cameron is an American attorney and politician who has served as the attorney general of Kentucky since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Cameron was the first African American,and the first Republican since 1943,to be elected to the office. He was the Republican nominee in the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election,losing to incumbent Democrat Andy Beshear.
The 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 7,2023,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Kentucky. Incumbent Democratic governor Andy Beshear won re-election to a second term,defeating Republican state attorney general Daniel Cameron. Had Cameron won,he would have become Kentucky's first African American governor.
Savannah Lee Maddox is an American politician. She is a Republican and represents District 61 containing Grant County,Gallatin County,and parts of Kenton and Boone Counties in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Maddox is viewed as one of the General Assembly’s furthest-right members.
Danny McCormick is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 1st district. Elected in November 2019,he assumed office on January 13,2020.
Bryan Fontenot is an American politician,former law enforcement officer,and businessman serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 55th district. He assumed office on January 13,2020.
Jonathan I. Goudeau is an American politician serving as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 31st district. He assumed office on January 13,2020.
Claudia Riner is an American politician who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1978 to 1981,representing the 36th district. She was the first woman from Madisonville,Kentucky,to hold high public office. Riner was characterized by colleagues in the legislature as a polarizing figure,due to her conservatism and religious activism,but she was also known as a persistent and adept legislator. She proposed multiple bills related to her Christian values,including her most well-known "Ten Commandments law",requiring that a copy of the Ten Commandments be posted in a plaque in every Kentucky classroom. She also proposed bills to teach creation science in public schools,ban the sale and distribution of pornography to minors,and require that misdemeanor offenders compensate their victims.
Nicholas Muscarello Jr. is a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 86. He first entered office in 2018.
The 2022 Kansas abortion referendum was a rejected legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Kansas Constitution that appeared on the ballot on August 2,2022,alongside primary elections for statewide offices,with early voting from July 13. If enacted,the amendment would have declared that the Kansas Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion,given the Kansas state government power to prosecute individuals involved in abortions,and further declared that the Kansas government is not required to fund abortions.
Matt Leber is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives,representing District 116. In the 2022 general election for South Carolina House of Representatives District 116,he defeated Democratic incumbent Chardale Murray who had been a member of the South Carolina House since 2020. Leber serves on the House Judiciary Committee and as Chairman of the Freshman Caucus.
Danny Bentley is an American politician who has served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since January 2017. He represents Kentucky's 98th House district.
References
- ↑ "Emily Callaway". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ Jett, Molly (2023-11-24). "Kentucky bill that proposes charging women with murder for abortion faces pushback from both sides". WDRB. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ "Abortion could be prosecuted as a homicide under a new Kentucky bill". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ "Ky. House rep. files bill to prosecute illegal abortion as homicide". wkyt.com. 2023-02-15. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ "Legislator-Profile - Legislative Research Commission". legislature.ky.gov. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ↑ "Legislator Information". services.statescape.com. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
 | This article about a Kentucky politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |