Attorneys for Kentucky woman seeking abortion withdraw lawsuit
1 year ago

Attorneys for Kentucky woman seeking abortion withdraw lawsuit

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who sued demanding the right to an abortion withdrew the lawsuit after the woman learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity. Lawyers for the woman pointed to a Kentucky Supreme Court decision that said abortion providers cannot sue on behalf of their patients, limiting the legal actions to individuals seeking an abortion. “The court’s decision has forced Kentuckians seeking abortion to bring a lawsuit while in the middle of seeking time-sensitive health care, a daunting feat, and one that should not be necessary to reclaim the fundamental right to control their own bodies,” the ACLU of Kentucky said in a release Monday. Kentucky voters last year rejected a ballot measure that would have denied any constitutional protections for abortion, but abortion rights supporters have made no inroads with lawmakers in chipping away at the state’s anti-abortion laws.

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A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions
3 days, 2 hours ago

A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions

Associated Press  

— A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, though Planned Parenthood said the decision is still not sufficient for it to resume providing abortions in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang said the abortion ban “is directly at odds” with a constitutional amendment creating a right to abortion …

A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky’s near-total ban
1 month, 1 week ago

A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky’s near-total ban

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A pregnant woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to restore the right to an abortion in Kentucky in the latest challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. “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 …

County judge strikes down Ohio abortion ban, citing voter-approved reproductive rights amendment
2 months ago

County judge strikes down Ohio abortion ban, citing voter-approved reproductive rights amendment

LA Times  

Supporters attend a rally for the Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment at the Ohio State House in Columbus last year. The most far-reaching of Ohio’s laws restricting abortion has been struck down by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive rights renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional. Jenkins said Thursday that when the U.S. Supreme Court …

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
2 months ago

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A three-judge panel on Thursday …

Kansas won't force providers to ask patients why they want abortions while a lawsuit proceeds
5 months ago

Kansas won't force providers to ask patients why they want abortions while a lawsuit proceeds

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kansas isn't enforcing a new …

Kansas won’t force providers to ask patients why they want abortions while a lawsuit proceeds
5 months ago

Kansas won’t force providers to ask patients why they want abortions while a lawsuit proceeds

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas isn’t enforcing a new law requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies, as a legal challenge against that rule and other older requirements makes its way through the courts. The new law was supposed to take effect July 1 and would require providers to ask patients questions from a state …

Supreme Court rejects Idaho’s appeal — for now — to ban abortions in medical emergencies
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court rejects Idaho’s appeal — for now — to ban abortions in medical emergencies

LA Times  

A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24 in Washington. The Supreme Court retreated Thursday from ruling on Idaho’s near total ban on abortions, leaving in place a judge’s order that for now allows doctors to perform abortions when necessary in medical emergencies. The justices in an unsigned order said …

Judge blocks Michigan’s abortion waiting period, 2 years after voters approved abortion rights
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Judge blocks Michigan’s abortion waiting period, 2 years after voters approved abortion rights

Associated Press  

DETROIT — A judge on Tuesday blocked Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period for abortions, saying it conflicts with a 2022 voter-approved amendment to the state constitution that guarantees abortion rights. The waiting period “forces needless delay on patients after they are able to consent to a procedure, thus burdening and infringing upon a patient’s access to abortion care,” said Judge Sima …

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobody
6 months, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobody

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Now the Supreme Court has unanimously shot down the 5th Circuit and Kacsmaryk, an embarrassing rejoinder to these lower courts’ law-free militancy. That’s true even in a “healthcare desert, where other doctors are not readily available.” A doctor who opposes abortion, the court …

Iowa asks state Supreme Court to let its restrictive abortion law go into effect
8 months, 1 week ago

Iowa asks state Supreme Court to let its restrictive abortion law go into effect

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to let its blocked abortion law go into effect and uphold it altogether, disputing abortion providers’ claims it infringes on women’s rights to exercise bodily autonomy. Most Republican-led states have limited abortion access following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and 14 states have …

Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban alleged Thursday that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies. “And that’s not been how things have worked in the abortion context.” The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the …

Lawsuit challenging Indiana abortion ban survives a state challenge
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lawsuit challenging Indiana abortion ban survives a state challenge

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals gave an incremental win Thursday to a group of residents suing the state over its near-total abortion ban, arguing that it violates a state law protecting religious freedom. Indiana’s near total abortion ban went into effect in August after the Indiana Supreme Court upheld it, ending a separate legal challenge. The appeals court …

Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions

Hindustan Times  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky's near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday in the GOP-dominated House, as lawmakers wrangle with an issue at the forefront of last year's campaign for governor. Kentucky's near-total abortion ban has been in place since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. …

Activists renew push to repeal Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Activists renew push to repeal Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Abortion rights supporters mounted another push Wednesday to restore abortion access in Kentucky, but the Democratic lawmaker sponsoring the legislation acknowledged the odds are overwhelmingly against them in the Republican-dominated legislature. The bill unveiled Wednesday by Democratic Rep. Lindsey Burke would roll back Kentucky’s abortion laws to the time before Republicans claimed majority status in the House …

Campaign advocate for abortion rights makes plea for Kentucky lawmakers to relax abortion ban
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Campaign advocate for abortion rights makes plea for Kentucky lawmakers to relax abortion ban

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A young woman who dominated the discussion about abortion during Kentucky’s campaign last year stepped forward again Tuesday to call on lawmakers to relax the state’s near-total abortion ban. This bill will provide those.” The debate about loosening Kentucky’s abortion ban comes after Republicans spent years adding restrictions to the procedure. Democratic state Sen. David Yates, the …

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion
1 year ago

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion

Associated Press  

Last week, a Texas woman sued her home state for the right to obtain an abortion in a new kind of challenge to the bans that most Republican-controlled states have begun enforcing in the last year and a half since Roe v. Wade was overturned. On Friday, an Austin-based judge elected as a Democrat granted Cox permission to receive an …

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion
1 year ago

What we know about the legal case of a Texas woman denied the right to an immediate abortion

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Last week, a Texas woman …

Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity
1 year ago

Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday. “Jane Doe sought an abortion in Kentucky, and when she could not get one, she bravely came forward to challenge the state’s abortion ban,” ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project deputy …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal condition left the state to get an abortion elsewhere before the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected her unprecedented challenge of one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, had spent nearly a week seeking court permission in Texas to …

Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking abortion as she is forced to leave state
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking abortion as she is forced to leave state

The Telegraph  

The Supreme Court of Texas has overturned a ruling that would have allowed a woman to terminate her pregnancy under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Instead, the court said, Dr Karsan would need to determine in her “reasonable medical judgment” that Ms Cox had a “life-threatening condition” and that an abortion was necessary to prevent her …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say
1 year ago

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

LA Times  

Demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in Austin, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A pregnant Texas woman who was seeking court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. could not wait any longer and went to another state, her attorneys said Monday. …

A pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion
1 year ago

A pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Friday demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. The suit, filed in state court in Louisville, says Kentucky’s near-total prohibition of …

Wisconsin judge reaffirms July ruling that state law permits consensual abortions
1 year ago

Wisconsin judge reaffirms July ruling that state law permits consensual abortions

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday reaffirmed her ruling from earlier this year that state law permits consensual medical abortions, handing abortion rights advocates a massive victory but opening up appellate options for conservatives. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion, in June 2022 reactivated an 1849 Wisconsin …

Ohio wants to revive a strict abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments
1 year, 2 months ago

Ohio wants to revive a strict abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Supreme Court justices vigorously questioned the state’s lawyer Wednesday about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of reviving its law banning most abortions except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. Flowers was representing Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, whose appeal also asserts Preterm Cleveland and the other Ohio clinics that filed the lawsuit …

Women in Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma sue over abortion bans after being denied care
1 year, 3 months ago

Women in Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma sue over abortion bans after being denied care

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More women across the U.S. filed lawsuits on Tuesday challenging abortion restrictions that went into effect in Republican-led states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. A woman in Oklahoma who said she had a dangerous and nonviable pregnancy filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday asserting that she was denied an abortion despite a …

In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe
1 year, 4 months ago

In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe

Associated Press  

OLATHE, Kan. — State courts have become hot spots in the national abortion debate, with Utah’s top court and a Kansas judge considering Tuesday whether their state constitutions require them to block or invalidate laws regulating the procedure more than a year after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Questions about those restrictions hinge on the state constitution — and on …

Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban, says state constitution gives only limited protections
1 year, 5 months ago

Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban, says state constitution gives only limited protections

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state’s abortion ban doesn’t violate the state constitution, removing a major hurdle to enforcing the ban Republicans approved last summer ahead of a wave of restrictions by conservative states in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Indiana became the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions, acting in …

Kansas won’t enforce its new law on medication abortions for at least 5 weeks
1 year, 6 months ago

Kansas won’t enforce its new law on medication abortions for at least 5 weeks

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas officials have agreed not to enforce a new restriction on medication abortions for at least five weeks before a state court judge decides whether to put it on hold until he decides a lawsuit challenging it and other existing rules. The providers — a clinic in the Kansas City suburbs in Johnson County operated by Planned …

Abortion providers sue Kansas over new medication rule, longstanding waiting period
1 year, 6 months ago

Abortion providers sue Kansas over new medication rule, longstanding waiting period

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Abortion providers sued Kansas on …

Lawsuit seeking to revoke West Virginia abortion ban dropped
1 year, 8 months ago

Lawsuit seeking to revoke West Virginia abortion ban dropped

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An abortion provider on Monday dropped a two-month-old federal lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total ban. The Women’s Health Center of West Virginia said in a court filing that its primary physician determined he will be unable to resume providing abortion care in the state “due to intervening professional obligations.” Another physician who provided abortion care …

Kansas high court signals continued abortion rights support
1 year, 8 months ago

Kansas high court signals continued abortion rights support

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ highest court signaled Monday that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution, as an attorney for the state argued that a decisive statewide vote last year affirming abortion rights “doesn’t matter.” The state Supreme Court is considering exactly how far the Republican-controlled Legislature can go in restricting abortion under a …

Texas judge to consider halting sale of abortion pill across US
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas judge to consider halting sale of abortion pill across US

Al Jazeera  

Anti-abortion groups are pushing to revoke or suspend approval of pill used in more than half of all US abortions. US federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative appointee of former President Donald Trump, has yet to issue a ruling after more than four hours of argument over whether to ban mifepristone, an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug …

Kentucky high court lets near-total abortion ban continue
1 year, 10 months ago

Kentucky high court lets near-total abortion ban continue

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Abortion access in Kentucky remained virtually shut off Thursday after the state’s highest court refused to halt a near-total ban that has largely been in place since Roe v. Wade was overturned. “We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision, but we will never give up the fight to restore bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom in Kentucky.” Kentucky’s …

Kentucky high court upholds state abortion bans while case continues
1 year, 10 months ago

Kentucky high court upholds state abortion bans while case continues

NPR  

Kentucky high court upholds state abortion bans while case continues Enlarge this image toggle caption Timothy D. Easley/AP Timothy D. Easley/AP The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state's near-total bans on abortion will remain in place while a lawsuit over the matter continues. The two state laws – a ban on nearly all abortions in Kentucky and a …

Similar state abortion challenges meet different outcomes
1 year, 11 months ago

Similar state abortion challenges meet different outcomes

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The top courts in two conservative states ruled the same day on similar challenges to abortion bans — and went in opposite directions. The 3-2 decisions Thursday in Idaho, which keeps a ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and South Carolina, which blocks enforcement of a ban after cardiac activity can be detected, are the …

Idaho court tosses lawsuits aiming to block abortion bans
1 year, 11 months ago

Idaho court tosses lawsuits aiming to block abortion bans

Associated Press  

Idaho’s Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday as it dismissed a series of lawsuits brought by Planned Parenthood. In his dissent, Stegner noted the impact pregnancy has on women, saying the majority opinion “strips Idaho’s women of their most basic rights.” “Idaho women have a fundamental right to an abortion …

Indiana judge won’t block probe over 10-year-old’s abortion
2 years ago

Indiana judge won’t block probe over 10-year-old’s abortion

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Republican attorney general can keep investigating an Indianapolis doctor who spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio, a judge ruled Friday. The judge’s ruling on the investigation into Dr. Caitlin Bernard came two days after the attorney general’s office asked the state medical licensing board to discipline Bernard, alleging she …

Kentucky AG avoids talk of more exceptions to abortion ban
2 years ago

Kentucky AG avoids talk of more exceptions to abortion ban

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general stood firmly behind the state’s near-total abortion ban Monday, saying he promotes Kentucky values “without fear or favor” though the Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped short of saying whether he supports adding more exceptions to the ban. Looking beyond Trump’s controversies, Cameron said “the working men and women of this commonwealth appreciated the policies that …

Kentucky Supreme Court weighs future of abortion access
2 years, 1 month ago

Kentucky Supreme Court weighs future of abortion access

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A week after Kentucky voters rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure, the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed the constitutionality of a statewide ban approved by lawmakers in a case that seems destined to become a defining moment for abortion rights in the state. An attorney defending the abortion ban urged the court “not to create the Kentucky …

Abortion rights wins in Kentucky, elsewhere stoke supporters
2 years, 1 month ago

Abortion rights wins in Kentucky, elsewhere stoke supporters

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lexie Overstreet logged plenty of miles on foot, knocking on doors to try to persuade Kentuckians not to take away one of the last legal paths to restoring abortion rights in the state. “And know that the thousands of doors that I knocked aren’t going to be forgotten and that all those people I talked to, they …

Voters Protected Abortion Care In Every State Where It Was On The Ballot
2 years, 1 month ago

Voters Protected Abortion Care In Every State Where It Was On The Ballot

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In five states, abortion rights were on the ballot Tuesday. In Vermont, California, Michigan and Kentucky, voters elected to protect reproductive rights in their communities through ballot initiatives that sought to either defend or restrict abortion care. “Yesterday, abortion access proved to be a winning issue across the country,” Kimberly Inez McGuire, the executive director at Unite …

Kentucky, Michigan voters approve protecting abortion rights
2 years, 1 month ago

Kentucky, Michigan voters approve protecting abortion rights

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Voters in reliably red Kentucky rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion while voters in battleground Michigan enshrined abortion rights in their state’s constitution — joining Democratic California and Vermont in taking that step. On Michigan State University’s campus, junior Devin Roberts said that students seemed “fired up” and that he had …

Abortion rights boosted with defeat of Kentucky amendment
2 years, 1 month ago

Abortion rights boosted with defeat of Kentucky amendment

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky voters rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion, handing a victory to abortion-rights supporters who have seen access to the procedure eroded by Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state. While a significant moral victory for abortion-rights advocates, the amendment’s defeat will have no practical impact on the right to an …

Editorial: Abortion rights triumphed from coast to coast
2 years, 1 month ago

Editorial: Abortion rights triumphed from coast to coast

LA Times  

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June, leaving the right to control one’s own body and decision to be a parent to the whims of state lawmakers, it fell to advocates and voters to fight to protect reproductive rights. “I hope this will be seen as a nonpartisan issue that is about rights and health.” Kansans led …

Where abortion was on the ballot, midterm voters largely signaled support
2 years, 1 month ago

Where abortion was on the ballot, midterm voters largely signaled support

NPR  

Where abortion was on the ballot, midterm voters largely signaled support Enlarge this image toggle caption Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Voters in several states where abortion was on the ballot were generally favorable to abortion rights. This summer's U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning decades of abortion-rights precedent left the issue of abortion rights to …

Kentucky voters asked whether there’s a right to an abortion
2 years, 1 month ago

Kentucky voters asked whether there’s a right to an abortion

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Karen Roper was so shaken by the demise of Roe v. Wade that she joined the abortion-rights struggle in Kentucky, where the future of abortion access could hinge on a constitutional question before voters this election. University of Louisville student Helene Senn, part of the door-knocking campaign backing the amendment, said abortion opponents can’t let this opportunity …

Abortion foes seek ouster of 5 Kansas Supreme Court justices
2 years, 1 month ago

Abortion foes seek ouster of 5 Kansas Supreme Court justices

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — The most influential anti-abortion group in Kansas politics is urging voters in mailers to remove five of the seven justices on a state Supreme Court that declared access to abortion a fundamental right under the state constitution. The group, Kansans for Life, was a key part of the campaign for a proposed amendment to the state constitution …

Judge hears testimony in bid to strike Georgia abortion law
2 years, 1 month ago

Judge hears testimony in bid to strike Georgia abortion law

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy is causing distress among women denied the procedure and confusion among doctors, an abortion provider testified Monday on the first day of a trial to determine whether the state can continue enforcing the restriction. “It’s emotional.” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has scheduled two days …

Jewish women cite faith in contesting Kentucky abortion ban
2 years, 2 months ago

Jewish women cite faith in contesting Kentucky abortion ban

Associated Press  

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky’s sweeping abortion ban was challenged Thursday by three Jewish women who brought a lawsuit arguing that it violates their religious rights under the state’s constitution. “Plaintiffs’ religious beliefs have been infringed: they are Jewish and Jewish law asked and answered the question of fetal personhood thousands of years ago and rabbis, commentators and Jewish legal scholars …

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