Somewhere between the funnel cake and the Ferris wheel at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville, a New York-based pro-abortion group called Mayday Health decided to fly an airplane banner reading "Abortion Pills By Mail" over the fairgrounds. Kentucky Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman responded by filing a lawsuit against them.

Apparently the cotton candy stand wasn't edgy enough.

Mayday Health was co-founded by Leo Raisner, who previously served as the traveling content director for President Joe Biden's Office of Digital Strategy. So we've got a former Biden White House operative running an organization that Kentucky's attorney general says is breaking state law by promoting the illegal distribution of abortion pills — and doing it at a state fair, of all places, per the Daily Wire.

"These out-of-state activists are not only breaking Kentucky law, they seem to delight in rubbing our faces in it," Coleman said. "The State Fair is a beloved Kentucky tradition for families and children to celebrate our Commonwealth. We refuse to allow Mayday to taint our values and put our people at risk."

This wasn't Mayday Health's first rodeo in Kentucky, either. Coleman's office had already been investigating the group since January 2026 over gas station advertisements in Christian, Simpson, and Logan counties that read: "Pregnant? Don't want to be? Learn more at Mayday Health." The state fair stunt apparently convinced the AG's office that a polite inquiry wasn't going to cut it.

The lawsuit, filed under Kentucky consumer protection laws, seeks a permanent injunction blocking Mayday Health from promoting its services in the state, plus financial penalties. The complaint states that Mayday's "advertisements and the Mayday.health website furthers and is integral to the criminal conduct of distributing these drugs in an illegal manner." Mailing or delivering abortion pills into Kentucky is prohibited under state law.

Raisner's response was exactly what you'd expect from someone who spent time in the Biden White House. "We look forward to defending our First Amendment protected work in court — and winning, like we have against similar efforts to suppress our speech," he said. "Abortion pills are safe, effective and FDA-approved, and everyone deserves access to that information."

The First Amendment defense. That's the play. We're not distributing illegal drugs — we're just telling people where to get them. It's speech, not commerce. Which is an interesting legal theory to test when the state's complaint specifically alleges that the speech is "integral to the criminal conduct" and when Kentucky law explicitly prohibits the distribution channel being advertised.

Addia Wuchner, executive director of Kentucky Right to Life, put it more directly: "Mayday Health is back at it — flying their abortion pushing-pill-propaganda over Kentucky. Kentuckians deserve better than out-of-state activists pushing dangerous abortion drugs into our Commonwealth."

There's a pattern here worth noticing. A New York-based organization, founded by a former Biden administration staffer, targets a deep-red state with a product that state has explicitly outlawed — and does it at the single most family-oriented public event on the state calendar. That's not activism. That's provocation designed to generate a lawsuit they can fundraise off of.

Coleman filed the suit anyway. Now Raisner gets to explain to a Kentucky court why a former White House digital strategist running an out-of-state drug distribution network at the state fair is just "First Amendment protected work."