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.

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What part of having a civil war determining the fate of slavery do you not understand?

We’re not discussing a civil war to add abortion protections to the constitution. We’re talking about passing it using measures that would not have worked when trying to outlaw slavery.

You’re conflating two marginally related causes as though they are identical. Try to stay on topic and you’ll be less confused.

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Sure, two causes that involved the rights of states over the rights of people’s bodily autonomy are only “marginally related.” Got it.

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Why are you mentioning the likelihood of them being added to the constitution while ignoring that one took a civil war to happen?

You’re saying you’re confused about why slavery was outlawed but abortion wasn’t when the nation was more divided during slavery. It’s because they had a civil war over it! That’s the only reason the constitution was amended to ban slavery, because of who won that war.

It’s possible that even if the nation is less divided than it was during the Civil War, it’s still too divided to amend the constitution to protect abortion.

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So you think the nation wasn’t still significantly divided after the Civil War?

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