This week, Kentucky Republicans passed a pro-life law meant to cover supposed grey areas in the state's abortion ban, which automatically went into effect in 2022 when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed the bill, which itself was a compromise to address "legitimate" concerns from the "reasonable" pro-abort side.
'Although supporters of House Bill 90 claim it protects pregnant women and clarifies abortion law in Kentucky, it actually does the opposite,' Beshear said in his veto message Tuesday evening.
The governor said the bill would block access to health care and put the lives of women facing crisis pregnancies at even more risk.
It's a little confusing, so let me break it down for you so you understand the stupidity at play.
Kentucky pro-aborts, like pro-aborts everywhere, fought tooth and nail to keep abortion as legal as possible, for as long as possible, to give women the opportunity to kill their babies as often as possible.
When that failed and Roe was overturned, some pretended to be "moderate" pro-aborts who are willing to "work across the aisle" while expressing concerns that pro-life laws will cost women their lives.
These actors then spread the typical lies that pro-life laws force women to carry babies after miscarriages, or ban women from getting treatment for ectopic pregnancies (where a baby implants outside the uterus and cannot survive).
Republicans, the most naive people on earth, responded with, "Okay, you want clarity so we'll give you as much clarity as possible with a new bill."
Kentucky's governor then shot down the bill and used it to throw mud in the Republicans' faces.
The new legislation would create a list of emergency situations in which abortions could be done to save the mother's life, but Beshear said it was flawed.
'The bill is silent on any other emergency situations,' the governor said in his message. 'No one, including legislators, can possibly create an exhaustive list of emergency situations that may occur in a hospital or medical facility. Gaps in the law are literally a matter of life and death.'
THIS is why you don't deal with bad faith actors.
The bill, very clearly, stated that if there's a medical emergency that would cause the mother to die, then that would be an exception to the abortion ban.
The bill then listed some examples of those situations.
But because the list wasn't exhaustive enough - and no list ever would be - the Democrat governor has nixed the bill completely.
Now Republicans are left looking like the bad guys, signaling yet again that they don't understand politics.
Time to tap this sign again for the GOP politicians who care more about maintaining the status quo with their political rivals instead of actually winning:
The good news is that Republicans hold a large enough majority to override Governor Beshear's veto. The bad news is that the Democrats got to keep their "Republicans don't care about women like we do" talking point.
Hope y'all learned a lesson from this one.
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