Update: In July 2025 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the case’s dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, finding that the issues it raised should be decided by the Texas state courts. The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a lawsuit on October 5, 2021 […]
Catch up on the latest news and analysis about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
(Updated 05.02.22) On April 28, 2022, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed a motion to add to this case a challenge to SB 612, a law passed in April and due to take effect in August that bans all abortion care except in narrowly defined medical emergencies. The lawsuit seeks to block […]
A broad range of experts and those most impacted by abortion restrictions have filed amicus briefs (“friend of the court” briefs) urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case challenging the ban was brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its […]
(Updated 07.07.22) On June 25, an emergency request was made asking a federal court to block Arizona’s personhood law as applied to abortion. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for July 8. The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed the lawsuit in August 2021 challenging two Arizona abortion restrictions passed in April. […]
(Updated 2.24.22) On December 10, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in this case, refusing to block Texas’s unconstitutional abortion ban and vigilante scheme that has denied Texans their constitutional right to abortion and ended most abortion access in the state. The case was argued before the Court on November 1. “The Supreme Court has ruled that […]
Mississippi has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, making it difficult and, sometimes, impossible to access abortion care in the state.
High Court of Malawi Clarifies Law on Abortion (Updated 06.28.2021) On June 15 2021, the Malawi High Court reaffirmed the statutory protections for legal abortion. In its ruling, the court reiterated that despite the existing legal restrictions on access to safe and legal abortion under the Penal Code, it also makes an exception when the […]
(REVISED 04.26.2022) This case challenges SB 1, a South Carolina law that bans abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. At six weeks, many women do not realize they are pregnant and this law would effectively end all abortion care in South Carolina, according to Greenville Women’s Clinic, an abortion provider in the state and […]
(REVISED 12.18.2021) – This case challenges five measures meant to restrict abortion in North Carolina, including: A licensing scheme that arbitrarily singles out abortion providers with medically unnecessary and onerous requirements. A ban that prevents qualified advanced practice clinicians (APCs), such as physician assistants, certified nurse-midwives, and nurse practitioners, from providing abortions. A ban on […]
