Woman Sues for Abortion Rights Amid State’s Near Total Ban 

Woman Sues for Abortion Rights Amid State's Near Total Ban. Credit | Getty Images
Woman Sues for Abortion Rights Amid State's Near Total Ban. Credit | Getty Images

United States: A pregnant woman sued to regain her the right to abortion in Kentucky state; the act is the newest action against a near total abortion ban held in the state. 

Kentucky Laws Banning Abortion Violate Plaintiff’s Rights to Privacy and Self Determination – This is the accusation the state court in Louisville has presented within the filed suit. 

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The woman, a state resident who is identified by the pseudonym Mary Poe to protect her privacy, is seven weeks pregnant at the time of the complaint. She wants an abortion but cannot get one in Kentucky legally, it said. The case demands the court to declare both state laws unconstitutional. 

What more does the suit mention? 

The suit stated the decision regarding becoming or remaining pregnant is among the “most personal and consequential decisions a person will make in their lifetime,” CNN reported. 

Woman Sues for Abortion Rights Amid State's Near Total Ban. Credit | AP
Woman Sues for Abortion Rights Amid State’s Near Total Ban. Credit | AP

The team of attorneys come from the American Civil Liberties Union who is backing the woman. 

The plaintiff mentioned in a statement that terminating her pregnancy was the right decision for her and her family. 

According to her statement issued by the ACLU of Kentucky, “I feel overwhelmed and frustrated that I cannot access abortion care here in my own state, and I have started the difficult process of arranging to get care in another state where it’s legal,” CNN reported. 

“This involves trying to take time off work and securing child care, all of which place an enormous burden on me,” she added. 

Other defendants in the latest suit are Russell Coleman in his capacity as the Republican attorney general of Kentucky. 

“It’s the attorney general’s responsibility to defend the laws passed by the General Assembly, and we will zealously work to uphold these laws in court,” Coleman added. 

Reactions to the suit 

The suit was dismissed within minutes as frivolous by David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation, which opposes abortion. 

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“The ACLU’s suggestion that the Kentucky Constitution somehow secretly contains a hidden right to terminate the life and stop the beating heart of an unborn human being, despite Kentucky’s clear 150-year pro-life history, is absolutely absurd,” Walls stated. 

Some other women are or will be pregnant and desire the right to have an abortion, so the suit is also asking for class-action status. 

Both are attempting to change Kentucky’s near-total trigger law ban and another six-week ban that passed Republican legislative majorities. 

The trigger law was enacted to come into force when Roe v.Pregnancy today was performed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Wade in 2022 and only allowed the prohibition of abortions in a case where the life of the patient is in danger or at risk of being permanently disabled. 

It excludes exemptions for rape or incest situations. The case is reminiscent of a case filed about a year ago by a pregnant woman in a bid to seek an abortion right in Kentucky. 

However, the challenge was dropped when a woman got to know that her embryo no longer had cardiac motion, but abortion rights did mention that the abortion fight is far from over yet.