Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that would have banned abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest. But it exempts in cases when the mother’s life is at stake, “or to avoid a serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.” The legislation, House Bill 3, is modeled after a Mississippi law that also bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule by the end of June on the law’s constitutionality. Currently, abortions are banned in Kentucky after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Kentucky state legislature has the majority that can override Beshear’s veto. The state Republican Party sharply criticized Beshear for the veto. State GOP spokesperson Sean Southard said on Friday the governor’s veto was “the latest action in his ideological war on …