In 2025, five brick-and-mortar abortions were reported in Kentucky by the state’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services. After Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, the state prohibited abortion from conception on the very same day. The law (KRS §311.772) was then blocked on June 30, but went back into effect later that summer on August 1 and has remained in effect since. The state’s life-at-conception law allows abortion in cases where a continued pregnancy would threaten the life and/or physical health of the mother. All five brick-and-mortar abortions reported by the state were performed because of these exceptions. One abortion was performed because the mother’s life was endangered due to liver cirrhosis, and another was performed as a “maternal life sustaining measure” due to PPROM. Two abortions were performed due to cases of previable PPROM, and one other was performed due to a case of PPROM, sepsis, and acute chorioamnionitis.
The data published by the state doesn’t include the total number of abortions obtained by Kentucky residents out of state or the number of self-managed abortions performed by women outside of the healthcare system. The report also does not contain the total number of mail-order abortion drugs obtained by Kentucky residents prescribed by licensed abortionists in other states with shield laws. Below, Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) will describe data provided by the Guttmacher Institute’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study that details the total number of Kentucky women who traveled out of state to obtain an abortion in 2025 and the number of Kentucky women who obtained mail-order abortion drugs shipped into the state by out-of-state abortionists. Guttmacher’s abortion estimates include the number of abortions obtained at brick-and-mortar facilities and those provided via telehealth and virtual providers in states where such abortions are still legal. CLI will also describe data from the Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount project that details the number of abortion drugs mailed to Kentucky women.
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