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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2024
Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States

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Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States

Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Idaho politicians seeking to disregard a federal statute — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) — and put doctors in jail for providing pregnant patients necessary emergency medical care. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this case on April 24, 2024. The Court’s ultimate decision will impact access to this essential care across the country.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2022
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

The case concerns the constitutionality of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The state used the case as a vehicle to ask the Supreme Court to take away the federal constitutional right to abortion it first recognized 50 years before in Roe v. Wade. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States accepted the state’s invitation and overturned Roe eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
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Abortion

Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center

In 2018, the Ƶ and the Ƶof Kentucky filed a suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers and their patients challenging a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or “D&E.” If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. After two courts held that the law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled in March 2022 that Kentucky Attorney General Cameron can continue his pursuit to push abortion out of reach by intervening in the underlying challenge to an abortion ban, which is proceeding in a lower court.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2021
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

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Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

The Ƶ, the Ƶof Texas, and coalition partners filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers and funds on July 13, 2021, challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law allowing private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy—before many know they are pregnant. The ACLU’s challenge made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court three times in as many months. After hearing oral arguments in the case, the Court issued a decision on December 10, 2021, that ended the most promising pathways to blocking the ban. The Supreme Court’s decision makes it more difficult to obtain adequate relief from the courts and gives states the green light to ban abortion using bounty-hunting schemes. Texas’ abortion ban will remain in effect until relief can be secured from a court.
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Arkansas
Jun 2017

Abortion

Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Smith

The Ƶand Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in June 2017 challenging a new Arkansas restriction that would target reproductive health facilities with extreme and medically unnecessary overregulation and would effectively ban abortion care in Arkansas.
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Arkansas
Jun 2017
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Abortion

Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Smith

The Ƶand Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in June 2017 challenging a new Arkansas restriction that would target reproductive health facilities with extreme and medically unnecessary overregulation and would effectively ban abortion care in Arkansas.
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Court Case
Nov 2016

Abortion

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands v. State of Alaska

The Ƶ, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed suit to challenge Alaska restrictions which effectively ban health centers from providing abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy.
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Court Case
Nov 2016
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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands v. State of Alaska

The Ƶ, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed suit to challenge Alaska restrictions which effectively ban health centers from providing abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy.
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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest et al. v. State of Alaska
U.S. Supreme Court
Jul 2016

Abortion

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest et al. v. State of Alaska

On July 22, 2016,The Alaska Supreme Court struck down the requirement, finding that there was no basis on which to distinguish between minors seeking abortion and minors carrying to term – burdening only minors seeking abortion therefore violates the equal protection guarantees of the Alaska Constitution.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jul 2016
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest et al. v. State of Alaska

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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest et al. v. State of Alaska

On July 22, 2016,The Alaska Supreme Court struck down the requirement, finding that there was no basis on which to distinguish between minors seeking abortion and minors carrying to term – burdening only minors seeking abortion therefore violates the equal protection guarantees of the Alaska Constitution.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2016

Abortion

Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

Whether Texas may impose onerous burdens on the state’s abortion clinics despite evidence that shows that the provisions undermine women’s health.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2016
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Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

Whether Texas may impose onerous burdens on the state’s abortion clinics despite evidence that shows that the provisions undermine women’s health.
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Ƶof Northern California v. Burwell
Court Case
Jun 2016

Abortion

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Ƶof Northern California v. Burwell

The ACLU, the Ƶof Northern California, and the Ƶof Southern California filed a lawsuit against the federal government for awarding millions of dollars annually to organizations that provide care, including access to medical care, to unaccompanied immigrant minors. The government authorizes some of these organizations to refuse on religious grounds to follow the law that requires them to provide these young people with access to contraception and abortion, even if the minor has been raped.
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Court Case
Jun 2016
Ƶof Northern California v. Burwell

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Ƶof Northern California v. Burwell

The ACLU, the Ƶof Northern California, and the Ƶof Southern California filed a lawsuit against the federal government for awarding millions of dollars annually to organizations that provide care, including access to medical care, to unaccompanied immigrant minors. The government authorizes some of these organizations to refuse on religious grounds to follow the law that requires them to provide these young people with access to contraception and abortion, even if the minor has been raped.
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