News: Updates and Media Highlights

The Center for Reproductive Rights expanded its work on behalf of women denied abortion care by filing parallel complaints in Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma September 12. The new complaints seek to ensure that people facing severe pregnancy complications in those states can access abortion care and that doctors have clarity on “medical emergency” exceptions in their states’ abortion bans.

Below are news highlights about the filings.

• Center Expands Work on Behalf of Patients Denied Abortion Care Despite Grave Pregnancy Complications, 09.12.23

• “Lawsuits challenging abortion bans in 3 states could have big implications for health care,” CBS News, 09.12.23
• “New lawsuits to come over near-total abortion bans in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee,” CBS News, 09.12.23
• “Abortion rights group sues on behalf of women denied care in emergencies,” Washington Post, 09.12.23
• “Legal Actions Seek Guarantee of Abortion Access for Patients in Medical Emergencies,” New York Times, 09.12.23
• “Women challenge abortion bans in three states after emergency care denied,” The Guardian, 09.12.23
• “When a fetal scan showed problems, she fled Idaho for an abortion—now she’s suing,” The Guardian, 09.13.23
• “‘My life was on the line, too’: How 1 mom joined the fight against restrictive abortion laws in her state,” Today, 09.14.23
• “Women denied abortion care, physicians sue Idaho over abortion bans,” Idaho State Journal, 09.13.23
• “I didn’t want an abortion. I needed one. Idaho made it degrading. I’m fighting back,” Idaho Statesman, 09.13.23
• “Woman in Tennessee Was Denied Abortion Despite Fetus Growing Organs Outside Itself,” Jezebel, 09.13.23
• “Physicians, women sue 3 states over abortion bans,” Becker’s Hospital Review, 09.13.23
• “Abortion rights group sues on behalf of women denied emergency care,” News Nation, 09.13.23
• “Lawsuit says Tenn. abortion ban gives patients two choices: out-of-state abortions or stillbirth,” WKMS, 09.13.23
• “Oklahoma abortion law at center of federal complaint,” Oklahoman, 09.13.23
•  “Women forced to give birth to stillborn babies, wait in hospital parking lot until ‘actively crashing’ in order to get emergency abortion care: Complaints,” Law and Crime, 09.13.23
• “Women with serious pregnancy complications sue over state abortion bans,” Cherry Creek News, 09.13.23
•  “Midstate women sue state over abortion ban,” WSMV, 09.14.23
• “Local doctor joins lawsuit aimed at clarifying Idaho’s abortion laws,” Idaho Mountain Express, 09.21.23