(REVISED 8.25.2017) This case is a challenge to medically unnecessary Alaska restrictions, passed more than 40 years ago, that ban abortion in outpatient health centers after the first trimester of pregnancy. The restrictions force many women [...]

Alaska Supreme Court Overturns Parental Notice Law Vulnerable teenagers relieved from additional burdensome hurdles. Ruling comes less than a month after nation’s highest court issues historic ruling reaffirming a woman’s constitutional right to safe, legal [...]

Court Protects Abortion Access for Low-Income Women in Alaska (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law and Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) regulation that would have severely limited [...]

(REVISED 5.23.2018) In 2007, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a law challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which would have required minors under 17 to have parental consent or a court order to [...]

Harmful Alaska regulation that discriminates against low-income women temporarily blocked Significant victory for Medicaid-eligible women in accessing the full range of reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) An Alaska Superior Court has extended the Temporary Restraining Order [...]

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. State of Alaska: Alaska Supreme Court Appeal Brief

In 1997, the Alaska legislature passed a bill which, if it had gone into effect, would have prevented any unmarried woman under 17 years of age from having an abortion in Alaska unless she has [...]

Alaska I. Introduction From time to time, we are called upon to decide constitutional cases that touch upon the most contentious, moral, ethical, and political issues of our day. In deciding such cases, we are [...]

WHAT: Oral arguments will be heard at the Alaska Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood of Alaska, et. al. v. State of Alaska. The Supreme Court will review the Superior Court of the State of Alaska's [...]