National donor resumes financial aid for individual abortions in Kentucky after pause | Ap

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Though Kentucky’s trigger law has been blocked for nearly a month and abortion has remained legal, one of the country’s largest providers of financial aid for individual abortions only this week resumed its donations to the state.

In a July 25 email from the National Abortion Federation to the Kentucky Health Justice Network provided to the Lexington Herald-Leader, NAF said it would resume individually fundings beginning Tuesday for pregnant people in Kentucky who cannot foot the full cost of the procedure themselves.

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