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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

1:21-cv-00616 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Closed Date: July 5, 2023

This is a case about the challenge of SB 8, a Texas law that allowed private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy. On July 13, 2021, several abortion providers, funds, and individuals who provided counsel to patients seeking abortions, filed this defendant class action in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs sued a putative class of state court judges and clerks, a private individual deputized to enforce SB 8, and sta…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. United States Food and Drug Administration

8:20-cv-01320 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 27, 2020

Closed Date: May 19, 2021

On May 27, 2020, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ("ACOG"), a nonprofit organization representing obstetricians and gynecologists, a New York-based nonprofit advocacy organization representing family medicine, a nationwide nonprofit representing women and transgender people of color, and a family medicine doctor and certified mifepristone (a medical abortion pill) prescriber, represented by the ACLU, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of ­­Maryland. The …
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. v. Glisson [later Meier]

3:17-cv-00189 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 29, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2023

This action was filed on March 29, 2017 by the ACLU, representing an individual doctor and his patients seeking abortions, as well as EMW Women’s Surgical Center, the only abortion clinic in the state of Kentucky, which was threatened with closure after the state found technical deficiencies in its agreements with a hospital and ambulance service. The suit was filed in the Western District of Kentucky against Kentucky’s Secretary for Health and Family Services and alleged violations of Substant…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
West Alabama Women's Center v. Miller

2:15-cv-00497 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 10, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 20, 2019

On July 10, 2015, the West Alabama Women’s Center, its Medical Director, and a physician it employed (collectively, the “Clinic”), sued Alabama's State Health Officer (“SHO”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Represented by the ACLU, the Clinic challenged an Alabama statute that required every physician who performed an abortion at a licensed abortion clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital or, alternatively, that the clinic have a written agree…
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
Chelius v. Wright

1:17-cv-00493 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2017

In 2000, the FDA approved the drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex for use in terminating an early pregnancy. Mifeprex was the only drug approved for this purpose. However, the FDA subjected Mifeprex to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy ("Mifeprex REMS") that burdened health care providers and limited patient access to the medication. The Mifeprex REMS provided that a patient could not obtain the medication by prescription at a retail pharmacy and instead had to be handed the…

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Hopkins v. Jegley

4:17-cv-00404 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: June 20, 2017

Closed Date: July 13, 2022

This is a case challenging abortion restrictions in Arkansas. On June 20, 2017, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and abortion provider filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The plaintiff sued Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and a cooperating attorney from the ACLU of Arkan…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
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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Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc. v. Bentley

2:13-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 11, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2016

This is a case challenging an abortion restriction in the state of Alabama. According to the plaintiffs, § 4(c) of Alabama HB 57, the “Women’s Health and Safety Act,” sought to restrict women’s access to abortion services in Alabama by imposing a medically unnecessary requirement that all physicians who perform abortions have staff privileges at a local hospital. Alabama had five licensed abortion clinics. Were it to go into effect, this law would effectively shut down three clinics in Montgome…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services v. Abbott

1:13-cv-00862 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 10, 2014

This is a case is about a challenge to Texas House Bill 2 (“the Act”) which allegedly imposed burdensome requirements on abortion providers. On September 27, 2013, several abortion clinics and physicians filed this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and their patients in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. The plaintiffs sued the Attorney General of Texas, the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, the Executive Director of t…