{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-311.7702","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 311.7702","heading":"Findings and declarations.","body":"The  General Assembly finds and declares, according to contemporary medical\nresearch, all of the following:\n(1) As  many  as thirty percent (30%) of natural pregnancies end in spontaneous\nmiscarriage;\n(2) Less than five percent (5%) of all natural pregnancies end in spontaneous\nmiscarriage after detection of fetal cardiac activity;\n(3) Over ninety percent (90%) of intrauterine pregnancies survive the first trimester\nif cardiac activity is detected in the gestational sac;\n(4) Nearly ninety percent (90%) of in vitro pregnancies do not survive the first\ntrimester where cardiac activity is not detected in the gestational sac;\n(5) Fetal heartbeat, therefore, has become a key medical predictor that an unborn\nhuman  individual will reach live birth;\n(6) Cardiac activity begins at a biologically identifiable moment  in time, normally\nwhen  the fetal heart is formed in the gestational sac;\n(7) The Commonwealth  of Kentucky has legitimate interests from the outset of the\npregnancy in protecting the health of the woman  and the life of an unborn\nhuman  individual who may be born; and\n(8) In order to make an informed choice about whether to continue her pregnancy,\nthe pregnant woman  has a legitimate interest in knowing the likelihood of the\nfetus surviving to full-term birth based upon the presence of cardiac activity.","path":["KRS Chapter 311"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=48499","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:06Z","sha256":"767692873f4a2599452d96bb21459aee9678d46ae7125357564f946380b8ec7a","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-311.7701","next":"us-ky/krs-311.7703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}