Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky are taking the state to court over the bill, saying without a court's intervention, clinics and other healthcare providers won't be able to provide access.
Tamarra Wieder with Planned Parenthood told WHAS the bill "creates an insurmountable obstacle to create care, so that at any stage right now in your pregnancy abortion care will not be accessible in the commonwealth."
The bill was passed over vocal protests from a group of abortion rights advocates who gathered in the Capitol.
But backers of the bill contend it doesn't equate to a total ban, and instead institutes provisions they maintain are meant to protect "Kentucky's most vulnerable citizens" and their mothers. But some lawmakers have acknowledged their reason for voting aye is to bring an ultimate end to the practice in Kentucky.
Earlier in the session, Rep. David Hale said, "That's my purpose is to stop this atrocity that's happening across this country and in this state."
The state's two abortion providers, Planned Parenthood and the EMW Women's Surgical Center, both signaled they would halt all abortion procedures when the bill cleared the legislature.
