Lexington Herald Leader: “In a major victory for abortion rights groups, Kentucky voters rejected a proposal to revise the state constitution to make clear there is no protected right to abortion.
Unofficial election results from the Associated Press Wednesday morning showed voters narrowly defeated Amendment 2, a largely Republican-backed measure that sought to add these words to the Kentucky constitution: “to protect human life, nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion….
In a conservative stronghold like the commonwealth, which swung Republican in 2020 presidential and Senate contests by 26 and 20 percentage points, respectively, the rejection of Amendment 2 is notable.”