Following the rapid passage of new abortion restrictions by the West Virginia legislature, Cooley, the ACLU of West Virginia and local legal groups have teamed up to file suit against the law they argue violates the U.S. Constitution.

“Procedural abortion is one of the safest outpatient procedures provided today—far safer than, for example, colonoscopies—and has been almost exclusively provided in the outpatient setting in West Virginia for nearly fifty years,” wrote Mountain State Justice attorney Bren J. Pomponio, who signed the complaint filed Wednesday with help from Cooley partner Kathleen Hartnett in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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