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Celia Ramos v. Peru (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)
This case is the first to be brought before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to address Peru’s forced sterilization policy.
Planned Parenthood of Montana; All Families Healthcare; Blue Mountain Clinic; Samuel Dickman, M.D.; and Helen Weems, APRN-FNP v. State of Montana, et al.
Case challenges a Montana administrative rule that would make it nearly impossible for Medicaid recipients to access abortion care in the state.
Whole Woman’s Health Alliance v. FDA
This lawsuit seeks to eliminate U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restrictions that impede access to the abortion medication mifepristone.
Nationwide Threat to Medication Abortion
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
This case filed by anti-abortion advocates challenging the FDA's approval of an abortion drug places medication abortion at risk across the U.S.
Texas Abortion Ban Emergency Exceptions Case
Zurawski v. State of Texas
Seeking clarity to Texas's "emergency medical" exceptions under its extreme abortion bans.
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton (Texas)
When the U.S. Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put out an advisory stating that the state’s trigger abortion ban, which bans abortion [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of South Carolina, et al. (South Carolina)
In this landmark ruling, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed abortion as a protected privacy right under the state's constitution. The ruling, made January 5, 2023, permanently blocked the state's ban on abortion at approximately [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice v. Drummond (Oklahoma)
On March 21, 2023, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protects the right to abortion in life-threatening situations, but declined to rule whether its constitution protects a broader right to abortion outside [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Access Independent Health Services, Inc., d/b/a Red River Women’s Clinic v. Drew H. Wrigley (North Dakota)
Case update: On September 12, 2024, North Dakota's total abortion ban was ruled unconstitutional by a state court, meaning that abortion will again be legal in the state. Read more about the ruling here. On [...]
Post-Roe State Abortion Ban Litigation
Jackson Women’s Health et al. v. Dobbs (Mississippi)
Mississippi’s abortion “trigger” ban —which makes abortion illegal in the state except to save the life of the pregnant person, or in cases of rape or incest that have been reported to law enforcement—has been [...]
