Resource: MKB Management Corp et al. v. Burdick et al.

The Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the law in state court on behalf of the Red River Women’s Clinic, a physician, and the clinic’s patients. After a trial in 2013, the Court struck down the law, ruling that the “inalienable rights protected by the Constitution of North Dakota must include a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy,” and that the North Dakota medication abortion restrictions violated these rights. The Court stated that any concerns about the safety of medication abortion had either been “exaggerated or contrived,” and that the unconstitutional restrictions “stand in the way of women’s health.” The Court added that this law would “force physicians to depart from well-established standards of care [and] to abandon the most fundamental tenets of their profession . . ., and to provide patients with illogical and potentially tragic instructions regarding the availability of any follow-up treatment that may be required on an emergent basis.”