Thu Apr 20, 2023 – 8:13 pm EDT
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Abortionists in West Virginia dropped their lawsuit against state regulations surrounding abortion on Monday, according to the nonprofit conservative legal group helping to defend the Republican-led state.
In an April 17 press release, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) noted that the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, an abortion facility, filed a lawsuit against the state over a pro-life law passed last year.
Attorneys with the ADF joined West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in defending the legislation, which has served to replace a more than 170-year-old pro-life law predating West Virginia’s statehood.
The Mountain State passed the measure late last year after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed nearly 50 years of federal abortion precedent in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, thereby eliminating the nationwide “right to abortion” and returning the right to regulate it back to the states.
Nearly all abortions are currently banned in West Virginia, with narrow exceptions for cases of rape, incest (if proof is provided, such as a notarized statement or a police report), medical emergencies, or babies deemed “nonmedically viable” (Live Action noted that “[i]nduced
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