Jessica Kalb has been waiting over three years for a court to decide if Kentucky law, including its ban on abortion, violates her religious freedom and puts her at risk of criminal prosecution if, as a patient pursuing in vitro fertilization, she eventually discards any frozen embryos that she doesn’t need.

Kalb launched this lawsuit when she was 32 years old, just a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban – outlawing abortion except in life-threatening cases – to take effect.

Now, Kalb is 35. At that age, pregnancies are considered higher-risk.

“We were trying to get all of this done before that milestone,” she said. “Because with geriatric pregnancies, there's a lot more risk.”

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