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Wendy Simmons – EMTALA Complaint
This complaint was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of Wendy Simmons, an Arizona woman who was denied abortion care at Northwest Medical Center in Tucson after experiencing preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (also known as preterm premature rupture of membranes, or “PPROM”) in October 2023, when she was 18 weeks pregnant. […]
Center Files Complaints Against Texas Hospitals for Denying Women Emergency Care for Life-Threatening Ectopic Pregnancies
Filings mark the latest Center work representing dozens of patients denied or delayed abortion care despite facing risks to their health, lives and future fertility.
Texas Women Ask Biden Administration to Investigate Hospitals that Denied them Abortions for Ectopic Pregnancies
08.12.24 (PRESS RELEASE) – In newly filed federal complaints, Two Texas women who faced life-threatening pregnancies are asking the federal government to step in after hospitals in the state refused them abortions. Both women had ectopic pregnancies, which are extremely dangerous and have no chance of survival—without timely treatment, patients can die. Filed by the […]
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Say Whether Hospitals Must Provide Stabilizing Abortion Care
“Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay.” —Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court Refuses to Say Whether EMTALA Requires Hospitals to Provide Stabilizing Abortions
06.27.24 (PRESS RELEASE) — Just one day after accidentally posting the unfinished opinion to their website, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today to reinstate a lower court injunction that blocked Idaho’s abortion ban to the extent it is in conflict with the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)—a longstanding federal law requiring hospitals to […]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Its Second Major Abortion Case of the Term on April 24
Case will determine if states banning abortion can override federal law and deny pregnant patients emergency abortion care.
Amicus Brief in Idaho v. United States and Moyle et al. v. United States
The Center's amicus brief on behalf of pregnant patients describing their harrowing medical experiences in states with abortion bans.
Women Denied Abortions File Legal Actions in Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma
09.12.23 (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed legal actions in three states where abortion is banned—Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. These actions were filed on behalf of eight women who were denied abortions despite dangerous pregnancy complications, along with four OB-GYNs and a leading Idaho medical organization. All eight women faced serious […]
