Kentucky senator denounces state’s restrictive abortion bill: ‘You’re killing women’

Kentucky senator Karen Berg issued a passionate defence of women's rights as she denounced legislation put forward to restrict abortion in the state.

Ms Berg, who is also a diagnostic radiologist, told her Senate colleagues that any law restricting the procedure is a “medical sham” that will endanger the lives of women.

She is the only woman - and only physician - on a committee debating a bill that would ban abortion after 15 weeks.

"What you are doing is putting a gun to women’s head... you are killing women," Ms Berg said.

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