In August , we asked Kentuckians to fill out a survey about voting in this year’s presidential election. Forty one people from Louisville and other parts of Kentucky answered the survey and shared their thoughts and concerns ahead of Election Day.
The concerns before the election
Of the 41 respondents, 13 said they were worried about women’s health care, abortion access and reproductive rights.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade , Louisville resident Jackson Davis told LPM News they’re worried about pregnant women who may experience birth complications.
“Women are dying from lack of care and just not getting what they need while they’re pregnant, [or] while they’re trying to end their pregnancy…and it’s not easy to watch people go through that kind of thing,” Davis said.
For Davis, reproductive rights are personal. They said their mother had an ectopic pregnancy — which can be life threatening — when Davis was a child.
“I was too young to understand at the time, but she said it kind of crushed her,” Davis said. “I [now] understand that you’re losing the child that you thought you were going to have, and if you went to term, you could have lost your life.”