The largest provider of reproductive health services in Idaho filed a federal lawsuit against the state Friday, claiming that Idaho’s physician-only law banning advanced practice clinicians from performing abortion services presents an undue burden on women seeking abortions and is “out of step with the State’s treatment of comparable health services and medically unjustified.”
Read moreArkansas argued before the Eighth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge was wrong to issue a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a set of laws aimed at banning abortions that the state says dismember the fetus.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday seemed poised to lift a court order blocking an anti-abortion activist’s access to public information about people associated with a University of Washington fetal-tissue research lab.
Read moreTwo clinics challenging Iowa’s new law banning abortions when a heartbeat is detected urged a state judge Friday to rule in their favor on summary judgment rather than take the case to trial.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday struck down Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, blasting the state for passing a law it “knew was unconstitutional” and wasting taxpayer dollars defending it in court.
Read moreTexas’ ban on a common abortion procedure performed during the second trimester of pregnancy came before a Fifth Circuit panel Monday, with arguments focused on the safety of the method and potential alternatives.
Read moreIn an interview with Courthouse News, controversial former judge Roy Moore says an Alabama ballot initiative allowing the display of the Ten Commandments on state property – an act that got him removed from the state’s high court 15 years ago – has the support of the people because it recognizes moral values.
Read moreA federal judge in Idaho refused to block a state law requiring abortion providers to report on “complications” from abortions, including breast cancer and depression, for the sake of medical research – a law Planned Parenthood has called unconstitutionally vague.
Read moreFormer Trump campaign consultant Jason Miller claims in a libel lawsuit that he lost his job at CNN and was shunned in his community after a politics website reported false accusations that he slipped a lady an abortion pill.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco struck down a lawsuit Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union that claimed U.S. Health and Human Services violated the separation of church and state by allocating millions of dollars to faith-based groups that took in unaccompanied immigrant minors but refused to give them birth control or access to abortions.
Read moreRejecting arguments that a court order is crippling David Daleiden’s criminal defense, a federal judge Wednesday refused to lift an injunction banning the release of secretly taped videos of a National Abortion Federation meeting.
Read moreThe decision of a Sixth Circuit panel to strike down an Ohio law that revokes health care funding from abortion providers was debated before the en banc court on Wednesday.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 Wednesday in favor of a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have credentials to enter nearby hospitals — a rule that opponents say could limit abortions to just one doctor at one clinic.
Read moreDefending its authority to keep underage immigrants from getting abortions, the government urged the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a nationwide injunction.
Read moreAttorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation pressed ahead Friday with their efforts to block the Trump administration from coercing unaccompanied minors into carrying unwanted pregnancies to term.
Read moreEfforts to stop an anti-abortion protester from using his webpage to paint procedures done by doctors as “aggravated murder” and equating abortion to the Holocaust did not violate his freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
Read moreAn anti-abortion crusader’s lawyer on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a nearly $200,000 contempt fine, accusing a federal judge of bias and painting the fine as an unfair criminal penalty imposed on her client.
Read moreAn Iowa judge denied an anti-abortion group’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by two abortion providers who argue the state’s new fetal-heartbeat law is unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday permanently blocked Texas regulations requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, predicting they could lead to a “near catastrophic failure” of the reproductive health care system in the state.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case challenging Indiana’s law criminalizing the acquisition of aborted fetal tissue, but the three-judge panel repeatedly questioned whether the case didn’t better belong in state court.
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