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.
The plaintiff’s attorneys signaled their intent to continue the challenge to Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban, but did not immediately comment on what effect the development would have on the lawsuit.
The complaint was filed last week in a state court in Louisville. The plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, was seeking class-action status to include other Kentuckians who are or will become pregnant and want to have an abortion. The suit filed last week said she was about eight weeks pregnant.
The flurry of individual women petitioning a court for permission for an abortion is the latest development since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. The Kentucky case is similar to a legal battle taking place in Texas, where Kate Cox, a pregnant woman with a fatal condition, launched an unprecedented challenge against one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S.
It is ghoulish that this deeply personal information has to be made public just for this woman to get medical care that she always should have been able to get.
Yes.
“Sorry ma’am, that baby is gonna have to calcify in your uterus, we’re pro life here.”
Hey! Calcium is people, too!
Maybe worth being a little more blunt in this case:
“Sorry ma’am, that corpse is going to have to calcify in your uterus, we’re pro life here.”
Not fair! It could go septic and kill her instead!
GOP: We can’t get universal healthcare because that’s putting government in control of your medical conditions.
Also GOP: Let’s pass a law that makes “Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity” a real headline.
Goddamn these southern state politicians are truly vile.
Pro-Life doesn’t apply when the fetus is already dead. This is pro-basic medical treatment vs. anti.
They were never pro-life.
This is a fucking insane dystopian nightmare. Fuck the GOP, fuck the SCotUS, fuck the US in general at this point. Fuck everything.
I say we start transplanting these fetuses into the people that don’t want the women to get care. Let them deal with it. Just open them up, drop it in and close it up and send them on their way.
Any one ever hear of heartbeat laws?
If a woman has a heartbeat, we must oppress her.
-the GOP
We could have codified Roe, but preserving the filibuster was more important.
Yup, the filibuster that has been used almost exclusively by racists and bigots trying to deny any kind of positive change. Absolutely need to keep that shit around when we already have the presidential veto and two separate chambers holding up any kind of progress even before the opportunity to hold stuff up in the courts.
Democrats are openly happy to preserve the relic of Jim Crow that is the filibuster. Setting a timetable for another man’s freedom is their heritage. They call it incrementalism now.
Conservatives cannot mind their own business under any circumstances. How they still trick people into believing ‘conservatism’ is beyond me.
It’s classic cult programming.
She killed her baby! To JAIL with her! If only she had waited until it was born to kill it she would be FINE by my Pro Life standards!
I already donate to PP and the ACLU, but is there some kind of legal defense fund for women in this kind of position? Do those organizations have everything covered so it’s better to just increase donations to them?
I know there were a number of charities launching as well as independent activities helping women travel out of state for safe abortions, and I am just trying to get a sense of the best way we can put our money to use while we’re still working on reversing the political side of this.
If you were an ultrasound technician or an OB/GYN, and the embryo shows cardiac activity, you should definitely not record that the embryo doesn’t have cardiac activity so that the woman can choose to terminate. That would be illegal.
Suddenly she won’t have standing. Unlike, you know, when other people (on cases they like) can still push through when they don’t have standing.
I predict they will say the case is moot to kick the can down the road.