Now, what began as a bill to deal with freestanding birthing centers also became a vehicle to clarify medical emergency as exempt from Kentucky's near-total ban on abortion.

Supporters of the revised House Bill 90 say it eases doctors concerns about their judgments in treating women with crisis pregnancies.

The bill defines those medical exceptions, which include instances of life saving, miscarriage management removal of an ectopic pregnancy or or abnormally implanted embryo, a medical procedure necessary to prevent death or substantial risk of death of the pregnant woman due to a physical condition, or to prevent serious permanent impairment of a life sustaining organ and medical treatment of the mother by a doctor, which results an accidental or unintentional injury or death of the unborn child.

House Majority Whip and Louisville Republican Jason Amos carried the bill on the floor today.

We are listening to the people, the people.

The argument largely was there were a bunch of them against it, but largely it was they're not allowing you to address ectopic pregnancy.

They're not allowing you to address miscarriages.

That wasn't true.

But we want to clarify it within the law that it wasn't true.

And that's one of the things that this amendment does.

So to the question.

The problem we're addressing is we're trying to save women's lives.

And this was brought to us by Dr. Goldberg, who speaks on behalf of Kentucky.

Planned Parenthood Advocates Alliance blasted the measure and they say in part, quote, Make no mistake, Kentucky's existing ban will remain firmly in place.

And these called exceptions do nothing to mitigate the chilling effect that drives providers out of the state or forces them into fear of prosecution for delivering what should be basic health care, end quote.

Now, several House Democrats feel the same.

If I thought this bill was going to protect physicians, if I thought this bill was going to protect pregnant women, I would so happily vote for it.

Despite some of my other misgivings.

But I'm just concerned that we're codifying that, yes, we'll give you mental medical care once you're actively dying.

And at that point it may be too late.

What this is really about is Republicans are not wanting to ever use the word abortion.

So you're going to dance around this and call it anything and everything you can except for what it is.

And that creates confusion within our medical industry.

And that does not set women up for success and for safety if they find themselves in this gut wrenching situation.

This body is the reason these women are in danger.

You know, we don't give credit to firemen when they put out a fire that they started in the terrible part of this bill, as we were expecting women to get sick or be on the brink of death before they are allowed to make choices on their body.

I am I am more devastated about this than almost anything that we've done.

We've done a lot of bad things here.

We could do better.

Kentucky mothers deserve better.

Kentucky families deserve better.

And our doctors who are trying to help people deserve better.

The amended House Bill 90, was sent to the governor's desk on a House floor vote of 74 to 17.