{"id":322148,"date":"2024-11-25T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322148"},"modified":"2024-11-25T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:19:23","slug":"woman-challenging-kentucky-law-killed-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-challenging-kentucky-law-killed-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman challenging Kentucky pro-life law has killed her preborn baby in another state"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An anonymous Kentucky woman who is suing<\/a> the state over its pro-life law traveled<\/a> outside of the state to abort her baby.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Mary Poe sued to overturn Kentucky’s pro-life law which protects most preborn children from induced abortion \u2014 direct and intentional killing. In\u00a0her\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>, Poe said that \u201cending my pregnancy is the best decision for me and my family.\u201d She was reportedly about seven weeks pregnant at the time and said she would suffer<\/a> \u201csevere harm\u201d if she could not kill her preborn child. She said she felt “frustrated” that she could not have an abortion in Kentucky and “started the difficult process of arranging to get care in another state where it’s legal.”<\/p>\n

And that’s what she did.<\/p>\n

A court document filed on Wednesday begins, “Please take note that Plaintiff Mary Poe is no longer pregnant.”<\/p>\n

The filing continued, \u201cShe recently traveled to another state to obtain legal access to the abortion care that she was denied in Kentucky due to the challenged bans.”<\/p>\n

She was about eight weeks pregnant at the time of the abortion and called it “an enormous burden on me” to have “to take time off work” and secure “child care.”<\/p>\n

According to the Endowment for Human Development, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health science education and public health, and whose\u00a0award-winning prenatal development DVD is distributed by National Geographic<\/a>, at eight weeks gestation (six weeks post-fertilization) the preborn baby’s heart has already been pumping blood for about three weeks. Brain wave activity has also begun as the cerebral hemispheres have appeared and are rapidly growing.<\/p>\n

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6 weeks from fertilization (8 weeks gestation\/LMP)<\/p><\/div>\n

The most common method of killing preborn children in the first trimester is now the abortion pill, which is composed of two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone blocks the naturally occurring pregnancy hormone progesterone, depriving the baby of nutrients, while misoprostol causes contractions that will expel the baby.<\/p>\n