US EditionLawsuit Challenging Kentucky's Near-Total Ban on Abortions Is Withdrawn
- A Louisville woman known as Mary Poe sued Kentucky in November 2024 to overturn the state's near-total abortion ban but withdrew the lawsuit on May 30, 2025, without explanation.
- The lawsuit challenged two bans passed by Republican majorities: a trigger law banning abortions after fetal cardiac activity and a six-week abortion ban, both effective since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
- Kentucky laws allow abortion only to save the pregnant person's life or prevent disabling injury but exclude exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal anomalies, despite recent attempts to clarify medical exceptions like ectopic pregnancy.
- The ACLU of Kentucky, representing Poe, confirmed the voluntary dismissal and stated they are strategizing next steps, while Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the bans as victories for pro-life values.
- The dismissal leaves no active legal challenge to Kentucky's abortion bans, maintaining restrictions that critics say deny necessary care and undermine medical judgment in abortion decisions.
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Lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s near-total ban on abortions is withdrawn
Attorneys for a woman who sued Kentucky seeking to restore the right to an abortion have dropped their challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. The attorneys filed a motion Friday to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit, but did not give a reason for seeking to drop the case. The lawsuit had been filed […]
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