A pregnant woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the state’s near-total abortion ban on grounds that the law violates her constitutional right to privacy and self-determination.

Attorneys for the woman, a state resident identified as Mary Poe in the lawsuit, filed the lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court.

“I feel overwhelmed and frustrated that I cannot access abortion care here in my own state, and I have started the difficult process of arranging to get care in another state where it’s legal,” Poe said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. “This involves trying to take time off work and securing child care, all of which place an enormous burden on me.”

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