Nova Health Systems v. Cline et al.
(REVISED 1.19.22) This lawsuit challenges two Oklahoma measures which threaten to make safe and legal abortion even harder to obtain in a state with only two abortion providers. The first measure, HB 1721, bans the [...]
Burns v. Cline
(REVISED 6.13.2017) This lawsuit challenged Oklahoma law S.B. 642, an omnibus measure that imposed various unnecessary restrictions and requirements on abortion providers in blatant violation of the Oklahoma Constitution. S.B. 642 was a multi-subject measure that—among other provisions—permitted warrantless searches of abortion [...]
Bans on Abortion at 20 Weeks: Unconstitutional, Unconscionable, and Unwarranted
The Supreme Court has ruled time and again that liberty is at the core of a woman’s right to control her destiny and her body, including decisions about whether ending or continuing a pregnancy is [...]
The High Cost of State Bans on Abortion Coverage
Since 1976, anti-choice politicians unable to explicitly ban abortion have sought to make it unaffordable by passing federal and state bans on insurance coverage for abortion care. Today, numerous state and federal laws impose unfair [...]
Gainesville Woman Care v. State of Florida: Order Vacating Automatic Stay of Temporary Injunction
Gainesville Woman Care v. State of Florida: Order Vacating Automatic Stay of Temporary Injunction Order
Adams & Boyle, P.C. et al. v. Slatery, et al.
(Updated 8-12-21) This lawsuit was filed as a challenge to three unconstitutional Tennessee measures designed to close reproductive health care clinics and make abortion harder to obtain. Two of the laws challenged have been permanently [...]
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Gainesville Woman Care LLC d/b/a Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center, et al. v. State of Florida, et al.
(REVISED 9.21.2021) Florida passed a law in 2015 forcing a woman to wait a minimum of 24 hours and make at least one additional trip to her health care provider before receiving an abortion. The [...]
Planned Parenthood Arizona, Inc. et al. v. Brnovich, Christ, et al.
(REVISED 7.20.2018) This lawsuit challenged an Arizona state law, SB 1318 (originally scheduled to take effect on July 3, 2015), which would have forced doctors to lie to patients by telling them that it may be possible [...]
Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt & Howe
(REVISED 4.07.2021) This lawsuit, filed on June 1, 2015, challenges a Kansas law (SB95) banning the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester—a law that could force some women to [...]
Shadow Report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on the Second Universal Periodic Review of the U.S.
Click the link below to download the Center’s shadow report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for the United States in May 2015. Our report, a joint submission with [...]
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