Abortion: Cases

The girls in these cases had little to no access to sexual health and reproductive services—including abortion—and, after being sexually assaulted, were forced to remain pregnant and give birth at risk to their health and lives.

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.

This case seeks to block three state abortion restrictions and ensure Michigan’s laws align with its voter-approved constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom.

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.

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.

This case challenges restrictive licensing requirements for Montana abortion clinics.

This case seeks to clarify and expand the medical exceptions to Idaho’s two abortion bans to ensure physicians can provide abortion care to preserve a pregnant person’s health and safety, including in cases of fatal fetal diagnoses.

This case challenges Tennessee’s total abortion ban as applied to pregnant people with emergent medical conditions.

Case challenges a Montana administrative rule that would make it nearly impossible for Medicaid recipients to access abortion care in the state.

This lawsuit seeks to eliminate U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restrictions that impede access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

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.

Seeking clarity to Texas's "emergency medical" exceptions under its extreme abortion bans.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]