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Planned Parenthood Arizona Incorporated v. Betlach

2:12-cv-01533 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: July 16, 2012

Closed Date: Aug. 22, 2013

This is a case challenging a 2012 Arizona abortion law. In 1980, Congress barred the use of Medicaid funds for elective abortions, but medical providers who offered elective abortions were still eligible to receive Medicaid reimbursement for other healthcare services. However, on May 4, 2012, the Arizona governor signed Arizona Assembly HB 2800 into law, making providers that conducted elective abortion procedures ineligible to receive Medicaid reimbursements for any healthcare services. Arizon…
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All-Options v. Attorney General of Indiana

1:21-cv-01231 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 18, 2021

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit challenged Indiana abortion restrictions banning the use of telehealth for dispensing abortion medication and requiring physicians to disclose misleading information to patients about the potential to reverse medical abortions. On May 18, 2021, a coalition of medical clinics and physicians filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs sued Indiana state officials, including the attorney general of Indiana, in their official capaci…
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South Wind Women's Center LLC v. Stitt

5:20-cv-00277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: March 30, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 8, 2020

This is a case challenging an Oklahoma executive order banning abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 30, 2020, South Wind Women's Center LLC, a health care facility providing reproductive care including abortions, a physician operating an abortion clinic in the state, and Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Inc., filed this lawsuit, on behalf of themselves, their staff, and their patients, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.  The plai…
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Whole Woman's Health v. Smith

1:16-cv-01300 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2016

Case Ongoing

Whole Woman's Health and several other reproductive healthcare providers filed this lawsuit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on December 12, 2016. Plaintiffs were represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights as well as private counsel. The suit challenged proposed regulations published by the Texas Department of State Health Services. These proposed regulations would require embryonic and fetal tissue …
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Braid v. Stilley

1:21-cv-05283 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2021

Case Ongoing

The Center for Reproductive Rights and private counsel filed this suit on October 5, 2021 on behalf of a physician who violated S.B. 8, the Texas law banning abortion care at approximately six weeks of pregnancy, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The suit was an interpleader action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act and sought a declaration that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional. The case was assigned to Judge Jorge Alonso.  The interpleader action was brought …
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Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges

1:15-cv-00568 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Case Ongoing

Two individual healthcare providers, represented by attorneys at the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Gerhardstein & Branch, brought this § 1983 suit in September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio to challenge new state regulations that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics. Plaintiffs in this case were the last two health clinics in southwest Ohio offering abortion procedures: Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio (PPSWO) and Women’s Medical Group Professional Co…
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Hope Medical Group for Women v. LeBlanc

2:06-cv-09176 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2006

Closed Date: March 3, 2008

This is a lawsuit challenging a Louisiana abortion restriction requiring that all abortion providers be OB/GYNs. After the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners tried to discipline a non-obstetrician-gynecologist physician for performing a first-trimester abortion, Hope Medical Group for Women—a medical clinic that provides abortions—and the non-OB/GYN physician disciplined for providing abortions at the clinic brought this suit in the Eastern District of Louisiana on October 26, 2006. Rep…
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EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Beshear

3:17-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2020

On January 7, 2017, Kentucky enacted House Bill 2 ("the Act"), that required physicians to show a woman seeking an abortion ultrasound images of her embryo or fetus, auscultate the heartbeat, and provide a detailed description of the embryo or fetus prior to performing the abortion, even over the patient's objection. The penalties for violating the Act included a fine of up to $100,000 for a first offense and up to $250,000 for each subsequent offense in addition to disciplinary actions brought…
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Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc. v. Parson

2:19-cv-04155 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 30, 2019

Case Ongoing

On July 30, 2019, the ACLU filed this litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri to challenge Missouri laws that would ban abortion in the state at nearly every stage of pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a non-profit reproductive care provider and a licensed obstetrician-gynecologist, sued the Governor of Missouri, the state Attorney General, the Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, the President of the State Medical Board, and the Director of the Department of H…
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Whole Woman's Health v. Paxton

1:17-cv-00690 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 20, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This is a case about a 2017 Texas law that effectively banned the most commonly-performed second-trimester abortion procedure, standard dilation & evacuation (D&E), by requiring "fetal demise" before the evacuation portion of the procedure (the law, 2017 SB8, is not to be confused with 2021 SB8 which authorized private monetary penalties on providers of nearly all abortions performed after 6 weeks). On July 20, 2017, Whole Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, and other individual Texas healthcar…