Ralph Alvarado threatens Kentuckians’ health and independence and has made dangerous decisions that Kentuckians continue to pay for.

He voted 21 times to restrict or ban abortion, including voting to amend Kentucky’s Constitution to say there is no right to abortion— forcing rape and incest survivors to remain pregnant.

• 2022: HB 3, an anti-abortion omnibus that banned abortion in Kentucky.  

• 2022: SB 321, another abortion ban in Kentucky.

• 2021: SB 9, abortion ban bill, 21RS HB 2, a bill that targeted abortion providers, 21RS HB 91 constitutional amendment to ban abortion. 

• 2019: HB 148, trigger ban.

• 2019: SB 50, restrictions on medication abortion.

• 2019: SB 227, another abortion ban.

• 2018: SB 454, method ban 

• 2018: SB 112, banning abortion over telehealth 

• 2018: HCR 152, honoring so-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers 

• 2017: HB 2, ultrasound requirements and forced narrative, and SB 8, to prohibit distribution of state and local funds to organizations that provide abortion services, essentially defunding Planned Parenthood. 

Alvarado didn’t just vote for restrictions on abortion—he led the charge by sponsoring nine anti-abortion bills and amendments: 

• SB 9 (2020)

• HB 451 Amendment

• SB 9 (2019)

• SB 5

• SB 25

• B 212

• SB 4 2016

• SB 112 (2018)

• SB 7 (2016)

Cancer screenings, birth control, STI testing, and so much more. Votes like these are never about protecting Kentuckians and all about deciding who gets essential care and who doesn’t.

• He has the record: In 2017, Alvarado voted for Senate Bill 8, prohibiting state and local funds from going to organizations that provide abortion services – a bill aimed specifically at Planned Parenthood.  

• He would do it again: Alvarado supports the Medicaid cuts in HR 1, the same policy at the federal level used to strip Medicaid patients of the right to choose their own trusted provider.  

• As Tennessee’s Health Commissioner, Alvarado declined federal funding for HIV prevention, putting communities at risk. 

• Kentuckians pay for it: Those cuts are already forcing rural hospitals to scale back services, defunded reproductive health care, and cost nearly 210,000 Kentuckians their coverage.

• As a practicing physician, Alvarado took payments from GlaxoSmithKline, a company that later pleaded guilty for misbranding prescription drugs and withholding safety data from the FDA and that was fined $3 billion. 

• Alvarado took campaign contributions from Nurses Registry and Home Health, a company that federal prosecutors allege was buying patient referrals. Alvarado sent patients its way and the company collected over a million dollars in taxpayer-funded Medicare payments. 

• Alvarado, in his run for Congress, raised nearly $374K that Louisville Public Media claimed mostly came from PACS and numerous donors from the health care industry.