Sad Update, On The Kentucky Case... But Plainly Reflects Why Legislatures And Courts Should Not Invade Private Doctor / Patient Discussions.

This morning, counsel for the plaintiff in Kentucky (as we mentioned last week) let it be known that the embryo no longer has a beating heart.

The fight is over (she should never have had to air her private pain, in public -- just to have a right to bodily integrity). Will the Kentucky AG agree that he has no business -- in this sensitive, highly private and deep life sciences arena (of doctor/patient)? I for one am more than slightly skeptical. Here's the latest:

. . .A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday.

Her attorneys didn’t immediately comment on what effect the development would have on the lawsuit filed last week in a state court in Louisville. The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, was seeking class-action status to include other Kentuckians who are or will become pregnant and want to have an abortion. The suit filed last week said she was about eight weeks pregnant. . . .

Will the Kentucky AG still try, as other red state AGs have, to charge the woman, for loss of the zygote? I certainly hope not. But she's become a political football, sadly -- so who knows? This is all. . . awful, and ugly. Out.

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