'Guided by our faith': Why 3 Louisville Jewish mothers are taking KY's abortion ban to court

[In It to Win It]

https://news.yahoo.com/guided-faith-why-3-louisville-161913527.html

Lisa Sobel longed to be a mother, envisioning the “fairy tale” moment when she finally found out she was pregnant.

Reality for Sobel, 38, and her husband proved to be a “shocking and crazy and heartbreaking” experience. They tried to conceive for years without success. After a lot of prayer, two rounds of in vitro fertilization, tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs, a high-risk pregnancy and nearly bleeding to death while giving birth, Sobel is now the mother of a healthy little girl.

But as badly as Sobel wants to have more children, she said Kentucky’s current laws surrounding reproductive health are preventing her from trying for another baby.

“At this point, I’m scared to try and have another child,” she told the Herald-Leader in an interview Tuesday. “If I miscarry, I could bleed out before the doctors and the lawyers could decide whether or not they could treat me or if I needed to be prosecuted, and that’s not a risk I’m willing to take for myself or my child or my husband.”

That’s why Sobel and two other women — all of whom are Jewish mothers living in Louisville who face reproductive challenges — are suing Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in an attempt to strike down the commonwealth’s abortion ban and fetal personhood law.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, the three plaintiffs and their attorneys argue those laws are vague, unintelligible and give preference to Christian beliefs in a way that diminishes the rights and religious freedoms of Jews.

“In Judaism, reproductive health of a mother is between the mother, her rabbi and her doctor — not the attorney general,” Louisville attorney Aaron Kemper said.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Brave women. I'm impressed.

Let's see magats try to lay waste to them.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. My first thought too! Brave beyond belief!

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3. As we've seen the last several years, "deeply held religious beliefs" cover a multitude of areas

From the notion that closely held corporations have religious beliefs to people who suddenly discover that vaccines are evil in the eyes of their god, deeply held religious beliefs have been cited as a means to invalidate all sorts of laws and public policies. Very difficult to pin down or hold to any consistency, the god of these corporations and people is a capricious chap who makes Loki look like the very model of stability.

And now here come three people who have actual, bona fide religious beliefs with a traceable history going back centuries, if not millennia. But since those beliefs don't sufficient pwn any liberals, it's anyone's guess how a Kentucky court is going to rule on their petition.