Posted on 12/11/2023 1:17:26 PM PST by Morgana
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — 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 abortion violates the plaintiff’s rights to privacy and self-determination under the state constitution.
The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, is about eight weeks pregnant and she wants to have an abortion in Kentucky but cannot legally do so because of the state’s ban, the suit said. She is seeking class-action status to include other Kentuckians who are or will become pregnant and want to have an abortion.
“I am a proud Kentuckian and I love the life my family and I have here, but I’m angry that now that I’m pregnant and do not want to be,” the plaintiff said in a statement released by the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the groups backing her challenge. “The government is interfering in my private matters and blocking me from having an abortion. This is my decision, not the government or any other person’s.”
Republican state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office said it was reviewing the suit but offered no other comments. Cameron’s office has defended the state’s anti-abortion laws in other court proceedings.
The latest legal challenge was denounced as “meritless” by The Family Foundation, a conservative group staunchly opposed to abortion. Its executive director, David Walls, called it “absolutely absurd” for abortion rights groups to say Kentucky’s constitution “somehow secretly contains a hidden right to terminate the life and stop the beating heart of an unborn human being.”
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Men please don't lay up with these women.
Expressing her alleged love for her family by aborting the next member of her family. Next she'll say that she loves bacon so much she's going on a kosher diet.
Birth control doesn’t always work.
A better question is, Why can’t she just travel to another state?
There is a coordinated campaign across the country to keep this issue alive through the 2024 election.
It does not always work true but over half the time when asked these women were not even on it.
Abortion is their birth control.
You would think after AIDS everyone would at least use a condom but no they don’t. Not even the gays.
“I am a proud Kentuckian and I love the life my family and I have here, but I’m angry that now that I’m pregnant and do not want to be,”
"I'm angry, Very VERY ANGRY!!!!! I wanna KILLKILLKILLKILL!!!!"
Men please don't lay up with these women.
Words of wisdom.
She can. But that doesn't support the demonic democrat party's agenda to destroy America.
The United States of Abortion will never be great.
No different than “sue for the right” to shoot your neighbor.
I think you’re right. She’s probably supported financially in her suit.
First Texas and now Kentucky. I suspect leftist groups are finding these women and promising big bucks and fame if they will become a Plaintiff in their cases. Much as they manipulated the Plaintiff in Roe v Wade.
She should have kept her legs closed problem solved
Wouldn’t be surprised if she got pregnant just to challenge the law, realizing she can always travel to another state to kill the “problem” if the lawsuit is unsuccessful.
So her right must coerce some doctor to perform a specific procedure for free. Anything like picking cotton.
Without a doubt. You watch as Democrats across the country bring this to a fever pitch by summer 2024 going into the election. Suburban women view the ability to kill their uborn as their battle cry. So utterly deceived are these women.
For a couple whose reproductive systems are fully functional, “bedroom fun” always carries the possibility of making a baby. We, as a society, must quit denying biology. Follow the Science!
The United States of Abortion will never be great.
That would be supremely ghoulish ... demonic even.
I can't discount the possibility.
There is a coordinated campaign across the country to keep this issue alive through the 2024 election.>>>> Yes and that includes republican abortionists. They will all vote democrat.
Well you love the life you have there.
But you aren’t willing for your poor kid to have his life to love. Maybe he’s like Kentucky too.
She can just go across the border to Illinois where she can slaughter her offspring to her heart’s content.
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