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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes

1:18-cv-00109 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 9, 2024

Ohio House Bill 214 (“the Act”) was signed into law on December 22, 2017. The Act criminalized performing abortions if the provider knew that one reason for the decision to terminate the pregnancy was a fetal indication of Down syndrome. Three nonprofits, including Planned Parenthood; the owner and operator of a women’s medical center; and a licensed physician (“the plaintiffs”) brought this case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on February 15, 2018, alleging that th…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Jenkins v. Lynch

2:17-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

Closed Date: June 12, 2019

Maine law prohibited anyone other than a licensed physician from providing abortion services. Represented by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, five advanced practice registered nurses (“APRNs”) and two non-profit organizations, including Planned Parenthood, (“the plaintiffs”) brought this suit in the U.S District Court for the District of Maine on September 20, 2017, alleging that this restriction on who can perform abortions violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaint…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Isaacson v. Brnovich

2:21-cv-01417 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 2021

On April 27, 2021, the Arizona governor signed S.B. 1457 (the "Act"): legislation that limited access to abortions in the state. Two physicians who provided reproductive health care services in Arizona, the Arizona National Organization for Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc., and the Arizona Medical Association (collectively, "the plaintiffs") filed this lawsuit on August 17, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging and seeking to enjoin enforcemen…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Falls Church Medical Center, LLC v. Oliver

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Closed Date: July 28, 2020

This case, brought in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 20, 2018, challenged the constitutionality of several Virginia statutes and regulations that governed the provision of abortion care throughout the state. The plaintiffs were a series of Virginia healthcare providers that provided elective abortion care, gynelogical, and family planning services. Represented by the ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, and a private law firm, plain…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health Alliance v. Rokita

1:18-cv-01904 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 21, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2022

This is a case challenging Indiana laws regulating abortion. On June 21, 2018, a group of abortion providers and nonprofit organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiffs, represented by The Lawyering Project and a private firm, sued Indiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief and attorney's fees. They claimed Indiana’s abortion laws violated the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due p…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. v. Cameron

3:22-cv-00198 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky (Planned Parenthood) filed this suit on April 14, 2022 in the Western District of Kentucky in response to the enactment of the Humanity in Healthcare Act of 2022 (the Act) on April 13. The Act imposed significant restrictions on abortion providers, including imposing vast reporting requirements and banning all abortions after fifteen weeks, with very narrow exceptions. Under the Act, providers risked significant fines and …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Armstrong v. Mazurek

4:95-cv-00083 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: July 31, 1995

Closed Date: Jan. 15, 1998

In 1995, the Montana Legislature passed a law restricting the performance of abortions to licensed physicians. The new law effectively overturned a previous state law, in effect since the early 1970s, which had been interpreted to allow physician assistants to perform abortions under the supervision of a physician. On July 31, 1995, a physician assistant who provided abortions and other medical professionals challenged the law in the United States District Court for the District of Montana, cla…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Moore

20-cvs-500147 | North Carolina state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Abortion providers in North Carolina (Planned Parenthood South Atlantic; A Woman’s Choice of Charlotte; A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro; A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh; three doctors; and an advanced practice clinician), and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective filed this case on September 3, 2020 to challenge five medically unnecessary abortion restrictions (the “Abortion Restrictions”): The Advanced Practice Clinician (“APC”) Ban, which disallows qualified physician assistan…