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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
Bans Off Our Bodies Protest Sign

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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
RFP attorneys Alexa Kolbi-Molinas and Andrew Beck heading towards the Supreme Court to argue the case.

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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Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Gonzales v. Carhart
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2009

Abortion

Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Gonzales v. Carhart

Challenge to a federal abortion ban, adopted in 2003, that lacks an exception to preserve a woman's health and is so broadly written that it would prohibit abortions performed as early as 13 weeks into the pregnancy. DECIDED
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2009
Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Gonzales v. Carhart

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Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Gonzales v. Carhart

Challenge to a federal abortion ban, adopted in 2003, that lacks an exception to preserve a woman's health and is so broadly written that it would prohibit abortions performed as early as 13 weeks into the pregnancy. DECIDED
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Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood
U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2006

Abortion

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood

Reviewing the legal standard by which courts consider abortion restrictions and whether laws regulating abortion must protect women's health. DECIDED
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2006
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood

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Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood

Reviewing the legal standard by which courts consider abortion restrictions and whether laws regulating abortion must protect women's health. DECIDED
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Schenck et al.  v. Pro Choice Network of Western New York et al.
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 1996

Abortion

Schenck et al. v. Pro Choice Network of Western New York et al.

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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 1996
Schenck et al.  v. Pro Choice Network of Western New York et al.

Abortion

Schenck et al. v. Pro Choice Network of Western New York et al.

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