Moar links : https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/st ... ortion-banJewish women sue to overturn Kentucky's abortion ban, saying it violates their religious rights
Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor v. State of Florida (Florida state court)
In June, the Jewish congregation L'Dor Va-Dor filed [a class action] suit in Florida, alleging that the state’s abortion ban violated that same state’s statute guaranteeing religious freedom. Specifically, the lawsuit cited the Jewish law which permits or even requires abortion in many circumstances, including to preserve ‘the health, mental or physical well-being” of those who become pregnant. A similar suit, brought by the ACLU on behalf of a group calling itself Hoosier Jews for Choice, is pending in Indiana. [ Hoosier Jews for Choice v. State of Indiana https://www.wbiw.com/2022/09/08/a-class ... h-s-e-a-1/]
Now a third lawsuit, brought by three Jewish women in Kentucky state court] asserts that Kentucky laws providing that “life begins” at the moment of fertilization and banning abortions after six weeks, are equally violative of their religious traditions. This suit differs from the others, however, in that it poses not only religious but practical problems—faced by not just those who may wish to terminate a pregnancy, but by those who actually want to become pregnant. Sobel, Kalb, and Baron v. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Jefferson County Circuit Court
As reported by Yonat Shimron, for The Washington Post:
What’s distinct about the latest suit is that all three of the Jewish women require in vitro fertilization to become pregnant but are afraid of beginning the procedure without greater clarity about what the law will permit them to do with excess frozen embryos. The suit claims the women must spend exorbitant fees to keep their embryos frozen indefinitely, and they are unsure whether they will face felony charges if they dispose of them.
As Shimron reports, the suit also states that “because pregnancies resulting from infertility treatments have a higher rate of stillbirth, the women foresee the possibility of not wanting to carry their IVF pregnancies to term if the fetus is not viable.”
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