Prenatal Equal Protection Act filed in Ky. House
KENTUCKY TODAY
House Bill 714, carried in the House by Rep. Josh Calloway, R-Irvington, and Rep. Richard White, R-Morehead, recognizes fetal personhood by requiring the same legal principles to apply during the prosecution of a homicide whether the victim “had been born alive” or was an unborn child.
The bill, also cited as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, includes two exceptions: 1) “lifesaving procedures on a pregnant woman when the procedures are accompanied by reasonable steps, if available to save the life of her unborn child” and 2) miscarriage—which the bill defines as “the natural or accidental termination of a pregnancy and the expulsion of the unborn child.”