Bill to Abolish Abortion Introduced in Kentucky

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY — Kentucky State Representative Richard White and Kentucky State Representative Josh Calloway have introduced House Bill 714, which would establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies in Kentucky.

House Bill 714 is the only legislation that would truly abolish abortion in the Bluegrass State, requiring that preborn babies are “protected with the same homicide laws protecting all other human persons.” Kentucky lawmakers must recognize that “innocent human life, created in the image of God, should be equally protected under the laws from fertilization to natural death.”

Under this legislation, murdering anyone would be made illegal for everyone, ensuring that all humans made in the image of God are equally protected in accordance with the Kentucky Constitution, the United States Constitution, and the Law of God.

House Bill 714 would close loopholes granting women complete immunity after willfully obtaining abortions. In the state of Kentucky, prosecutors are barred by Pro-Life regulations from charging women with homicide even after they willfully order and take abortion pills. In one recent example, a prosecutor was forced to drop fetal homicide charges against a woman who admitted to taking abortion pills, as well as burying her baby in a shallow grave in her backyard.

Kentucky abortion numbers are increasing even after the passage of new Pro-Life laws in recent years. There were more than 5,000 preborn babies murdered in Kentucky by means of telehealth abortions in 2024, a figure which includes neither out-of-state travel for abortions nor self-managed abortions occurring outside of the medical system.

While new Pro-Life regulations on abortion pills have been introduced in Kentucky, they fail to criminalize abortion as murder for everyone willfully involved. Unless lawmakers in Kentucky establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies, they cannot expect abortion to be abolished, and preborn babies made in the image of God will continue to be murdered.