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Appeals judges want lower court to take a closer look at reasons why Lexington Fayette Urban-County Government wants to withhold documents

With a vote of three to two on June 25, 2019, the Western Kentucky town of Henderson, population 28,657, became the eleventh city in the state to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. The Fairness Ordinance vote came 20 years after the Henderson City Commission originally passed a Fairness Ordinance, which made it only the third Kentucky city in 1999 with LGBTQ protections alongside Louisville and Lexington. In 2001, a new Henderson City Commission repealed the ordinance and did not consider it again until former Mayor Joan Hoffman brought the issue back up to commission last fall.

The ACLU-KY Internship Program aims to provide professional development opportunities, thoughtful mentorship, and energetic supervision while providing the organization with a top-notch class of interns from diverse backgrounds and experiences to bring programmatic support to its work.In order to maintain a quality experience for each internship experience, the following components will be included across types of internships: a learning plan to detail learning goals and objectives, invitations to organizational and public meetings, regular supervision and feedback, and an exit interview.

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On May 10, 2019 a federal district judge struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting physicians from providing dilation and evacuation (D&E), the standard method for abortion care after about 14 or 15 weeks. Leading medical experts such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists oppose this type of restriction.

As a young person, you may assume you don’t have many rights – but you do!

A divided federal appeals court has upheld a Kentucky law that requires doctors to display and describe the details of an ultrasound to a woman, as well as make the fetal heartbeat audible, prior to providing an abortion procedure — even if the woman is closing her eyes or asking the doctor to stop and even when the doctor believes it would be harmful to the patient.  

The American Civil Liberties Union announced March 14th it will file a lawsuit on behalf of the sole remaining abortion provider in Kentucky challenging a near total ban on abortion. The announcement comes immediately after the Kentucky legislature passed Senate Bill 9, a bill that would ban abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy before most women know they are pregnant.