abortion

Three Jewish women making a religious freedom argument against the state’s near-total abortion ban don’t have the standing to sue, a Louisville judge ruled.

The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.

The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.

Abortion providers said a critical exception in Indiana’s near-total abortion ban is vague and unclear — which puts patient lives at risk. The first day of testimony in the latest legal challenge to the law largely focused on concerns around the “health or life exception.”

The latest national abortion count by the Society of Family Planning found an increase in the number of abortions in 2023 compared to the year prior. But the numbers vary by state with some seeing sharp decreases due to fresh restrictions and bans.

Three Jewish women got their day in court Monday as they challenged Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban, saying it interferes with their religious beliefs about life and ability to become pregnant.

A Kentucky Democrat introduced legislation Wednesday that would repeal years’ worth of anti-abortion laws and add protections for people who get abortions out-of-state.

A recent report estimates how abortion bans in states like Kentucky and Missouri affected birth rates during the first half of 2023. It’s an early indicator that the bans aren’t equal in terms of impact.

The ACLU announced Tuesday that the woman at the center of a new lawsuit against Kentucky’s strictest abortion bans has experienced a change in the condition of her pregnancy.

A pregnant Kentuckian filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against Kentucky’s trigger and six-week bans on abortion. She says the laws violate her constitutional rights.