Other Barriers
Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey: 2014 Appellees’ Principal and Response Brief at Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
No Health Care for New Class of Immigrants
No Health Care for New Class of Immigrants reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/imigrants_obama.jpg A recent piece in the New York Times takes a look at the scope of President Obama’s bold Executive Order on immigration, which promises to shield up to five million people from the threat of deportation. Notably absent from the president’s plan is mention of health […]
Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey: 2014 Supreme Court of the United States Stay Order
Whole Woman’s Health v. Lakey: 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Opinion
Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice v. Cline
(REVISED 10.23.2019) This lawsuit challenged an Oklahoma law that would have required physicians providing medication abortions to use an obsolete protocol that does not meet the current standard of care and is less safe and more burdensome for patients. Medication abortion (a combination of the medications mifepristone and misoprostol) is a safe and effective method of […]
Recipe for Disaster
Recipe for Disaster Using absurd building regulations in an underhanded attempt to shutter most of the state’s abortion clinics, Texas legislators risk a public health crisis. Liposuction. Colonoscopy. Skin cancer excision. Vasectomy. A D&,C after a miscarriage. Childbirth. These are just a few of the many procedures the State of Texas allows to take place […]
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt, et al.: Temporary Restraining Order
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt, et al.: Petition
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt, et al.
In 2013, Kansas passed a law containing more than a dozen harmful measures, including redefining what constituted a medical emergency in a way that would have required many pregnant women in life-threatening situations to wait at least 24 hours before obtaining emergency abortion care. The law also would have forced doctors to vouch for the […]