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.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re a hypocrite and a liar.

    Let me tell you why: Infant mortality (live births that died under 1 year of age) in the US rose by 3% in 2022, increasing for the first time in 20 years from 5.44 per 1000 live births in 2021 to 5.60. (data from the CDC)

    Comparing with Europe, you let almost twice of your babies die.

    I’m talking about real babies here, babies whose fathers have held them in their arms, changed their diapers, sang them lullabies… And you let them die.

    Why is infant mortality in the US the highest of any industrialised nation?

    Two reasons: because maternity care in the US is utterly appalling, and because you limit access to abortion. Read more.

    You don’t care about children. You care about controlling women. Land of the free allright…