This administrative complaint argues that the hospitals violated its obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) by denying pregnant women care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies.
Lawsuit asks the court to block a midwifery restriction law to restore access to safe, respectful, and culturally informed maternal care in Hawai‘i communities.
More about the Hawai’i midwives, midwifery students and women who are plaintiffs in the case.
Representing patients denied abortion care despite facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications, the Center’s cases seek to clarify medical exceptions to U.S. state laws that have outlawed abortion and put people’s lives at risk.
This is the first case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade filed on behalf of a pregnant woman seeking emergency abortion care.
Kate Cox is seeking emergency abortion care in Texas to protect her health, life, and future fertility.
A broad range of experts filed amicus briefs (“friend of the court” briefs) to the Texas Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs in Zurawski v. State of Texas, the Center’s case on behalf of Texas physicians and women denied abortion care despite facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications that threatened their health, lives, and […]
This is the first case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade filed on behalf of a pregnant woman seeking emergency abortion care.
This case challenges a Kansas regulatory scheme that forces providers to relay inaccurate information to patients and makes it more difficult for Kansans to access abortion care.
