By Greg Horton “Oklahoma House Bill 1595, aka the Statistical Reporting of Abortion Act, suffered another setback on Dec. 18 when Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens extended a temporary restraining order until Feb. 19, 2010. The order prevents the state from demanding women who are seeking an abortion fill out a 10-page questionnaire, and […]
By Rochelle Hines “An Oklahoma County judge Friday extended a temporary restraining order that blocks enforcement of a controversial abortion law that is being challenged on grounds that it violates the Oklahoma constitution. The state attorney general’s office, which is defending the law, argued that delaying enactment could result in harm to individuals, particularly under […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, an Oklahoma County District Court temporarily blocked enforcement of a new abortion law that would have imposed a host of restrictions on women’s access to abortion and cost the state over a quarter of a million dollars a year to implement. The judge extended the temporary restraining order currently in place until […]
By Wayne Drash “A judge could determine Friday whether to allow an Oklahoma law to go forward that will post information online about women who get abortions in the state — an act critics say would be harassment and an invasion of privacy.‘We don’t feel that the government should be able to run a grand […]
By Kathy Lohr “In Oklahoma, a new law requires any woman seeking an abortion to first answer dozens of personal questions, including why she wants the procedure. That information, names omitted, would eventually be posted on a state Web site. Those who support the measure say it will help them better understand why women are […]
This case, known as the Alaska Personhood Initiative, is a pre-election challenge to the Alaska Lieutenant Governor’s certification of a measure seeking to extend legal rights from the moment of conception. Case filed: 11/23/2009 State: Alaska Plaintiff(s): Victor Fischer, Anne Harrison, Mark Sandberg Center Attorney(s): Janet Crepps Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Jeffrey M. Feldman, Feldman Orlansky […]
Nebraska Like giving birth to a child, when a woman ends her pregnancy during or after the second trimester, she confronts a serious problem. Her cervix will frequently be too small to allow the skull of the human fetus to pass through it. Although terminating a pregnancy in America is safer than childbirth, this “skull-is-too-large” […]
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.Elizabeth KARLIN, M.D., Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc., Gary T. Prohaska, M.D., Dennis D. Christensen, M.D., and Summit Women’s Health Organization, on behalf of themselves and their patients seeking abortions, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees,v.C. William FOUST, in his official capacity as District Attorney for Dane County and a representative of the […]
United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division. SUMMIT MEDICAL CENTER OF ALABAMA, INC., New Women’s Health Care, Beacon Women’s Center, on behalf of themselves and their patients seeking abortions, Plaintiffs,v.Bob RILEY, in his official capacity as Governor for the State of Alabama and his agents and successors, Bill Pryor, in his official capacity as […]