Texas passed House Bill 2 in 2013, which requires that abortion providers obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals and mandates a medically obsolete method of medication abortion. Laws that require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at hospitals or to use outdated protocols when providing medication abortions are contrary to current medical standards, and the […]
This case challenges the arbitrary decision of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restrict access to emergency contraception (EC). Filing date: 01/21/2005, Re-opened 2/15/2012 Plaintiff(s): Annie Tummino, Erin T. Mahoney, Carol GiardinaKelly Mangan, Stephanie Seguin, Lori Tinney, Jennifer Brown, Candace Churchill, and Francie Hunt, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, and National Latina Institute […]
The Center is challenging an Oklahoma law that unconstitutionally restricts adults and teens’ access to over-the-counter emergency contraceptives, by requiring adult women to show ID to a pharmacist to buy them, and teens under 17 to first get a prescription from a doctor. Filing Date: 8/8/2013 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, Jo […]
This suit challenged a new Louisiana law which expands the State’s authority to suspend or revoke the licenses of outpatient abortion facilities, thus restricting access to care for Louisiana women. Filing date: 09/20/2010 State: Louisiana, USA Plaintiff(s): Bossier City Medical Suite, Inc., Choice Inc. of Texas d/b/a Causeway Medical Clinic, Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge, […]
The Center challenged a newly enacted Texas law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless her physician first performs an ultrasound, places the ultrasound images in her view, describes the images to her, makes fetal heart sounds audible, if possible, and describes those sounds to her, whether or not she wants to see […]
This case challenged North Dakota Senate Bill 2305, which requires any physician providing abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility. SB 2305 was set to take effect on August 1, 2013, but the District Court blocked its enforcement on July 31, 2013. The physicians at Red River […]
(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 obtain an abortion, violated the right to privacy under the Alaska Constitution. In August 2010, Alaska voters passed an initiative […]
This is a federal court challenge to an Arizona law, passed in 2012, that prohibits abortions beginning at 20 weeks (measured from the date of fertilization). Filing date: 7/12/2012 State: Arizona Plaintiff(s): Paul A. Isaacson, M.D., (represented by CRR) and William Clewell, M.D. and Hugh Miller, M.D.(represented by ACLU) Center Attorney(s): Janet Crepps, David Brown […]
This lawsuit argues that the detention and abuse of women who are unable to pay for maternity services at Kenyan public hospitals is arbitrary, unlawful, and in violation of Kenyan constitutional and international human rights standards. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed this case on December 7, 2012, on behalf of two petitioners who were […]
(REVISED 02.01.2019) This lawsuit challenged Mississippi’s attempt to end legal abortion in the state by attempting to shut down its one remaining abortion clinic. Mississippi passed a law in 2012 explicitly intended to shut down its last abortion clinic by requiring that all physicians associated with an abortion facility have admitting privileges at a local […]
