That failure brings back painful memories for Hadley Duvall. She is a survivor. Her stepfather sexually abused her as a young child.
Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion have withdrawn the lawsuit after the woman learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity.
The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, is about eight weeks pregnant and she wants to have an abortion in Kentucky.
The state's current trigger law bans abortions except when they are carried out to save the life of the mother or to prevent disabling injury.
Whether those voices will resonate with the Kentucky Supreme Court, which is set to hear arguments for and against the ban Tuesday, hinges on legal arguments about whether state constitutional protections extend to a right to an abortion.
Already mired in three lawsuits over abortion restrictions, Kentucky lawmakers are ratcheting up the stakes with a new bill to ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.