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Kentucky woman sues state over abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy (www.kentucky.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Kentucky woman Friday filed an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a Jefferson County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky since the state banned nearly all abortions in 2022 and one of the only times nationwide since before Roe v. Wade in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to intervene on her behalf and allow her to get an abortion.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 11 months ago (128 children)

Pregnancy comes with medical risk to the mother. Restricting abortion access is a clear violation of the 14th amendment.

Abortion is healthcare.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 11 months ago

It is deeply upsetting that this is where we are at in the U.S. That said, I hope she kicks their ass in court.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Classic conservative move -- getting a vaccine during a deadly pandemic is an affront to bodily autonomy rights, but it's totally okay to force a woman to carry a pregnancy because of religious beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

I don’t necessarily disagree, but they would counter this argument by simply flipping it: “If you can get an abortion why should I have to get a vaccine?”

And, of course, the logic here is that the vaccine helps you and everyone else because the virus won’t spread as much, and the abortion affects — bodily — just the woman. But that won’t matter to their argument.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Didn't we cover all this in 2021?

Nobody was ever punished for not getting a vaccine in a way that's remotely comparable to the punishments women and doctors are threatened with for abortions.

Nobody was ever forced to get a vaccine against their will. Forcing women to give birth against their will is the whole point of abortion laws.

Abortion isn't contagious. Having one doesn't put people around you in any kind of risk. Being unvaccinated does greatly increase the likelihood that people around you will get sick.

Vaccine mandates were only a thing in the middle of a pandemic. They've all been rolled back since the crisis has gotten under control. Abortion restrictions, OTOH, are not temporary and were not created in response to some special circumstance.