Lone Missouri Abortion Clinic Allowed to Stay Open
Missouri wrongfully withheld Planned Parenthood’s license for the state’s only abortion clinic, an administrative panel ruled Friday.
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Dutch Woman Loses Bid for Abortion Pill Without Clinic Visit
A Dutch court rejected a case that sought to allow women in the Netherlands to receive abortion-inducing medication by mail instead of at a clinic.
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Clinics Praise Block of Abortion Gag Rule in Maryland
Abortion rights advocates are applauding a limited but strongly worded ruling out of Maryland that blocked a Trump administration policy barring federally funded clinics from referring women for abortions.
Read moreMissouri Panel Wraps Hearing on Fate of Lone Abortion Clinic
The closely watched hearing to decide whether Missouri’s sole abortion clinic can keep its license wrapped up Thursday with the emotional testimony of the clinic’s director of surgical services.
Read moreAbortion Clinic Chief Pushes Back Against Missouri in License Dispute
The chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of St. Louis defended her clinic’s quality of patient care on the third day of an administrative hearing to determine the fate of Missouri’s last remaining abortion facility.
Read morePanel to Decide Fate of Only Abortion Clinic in Missouri
Planned Parenthood took its fight to keep Missouri’s lone abortion clinic open to state administrators on Monday, arguing that an investigation into failed abortions did not uncover any safety issues.
Read moreThird Circuit OKs Buffer Zones for Anti-Abortion Protesters
The Third Circuit ruled unanimously Friday that a Pittsburgh buffer-zone ordinance that puts space between clinics and anti-abortion activists does not violate the protesters’ rights.
Read moreMissouri Judge Extends License for Lone Abortion Clinic
A Missouri judge issued an order Monday extending Planned Parenthood’s license through the end of the week, giving the state’s only abortion clinic time to appeal its licensing denial on the administrative level.
Read moreMissouri Denies License for State’s Last Abortion Clinic
Missouri officially denied Planned Parenthood’s license on Friday, but a St. Louis judge kept a preliminary injunction in place allowing the state’s only remaining abortion clinic to stay open for now.
Read moreACLU Challenges Ohio Heartbeat Abortion Law
Abortion providers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday over Ohio’s new law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which mirrors legislation passed recently in several other states.
Read moreFull Sixth Circuit Allows Ohio to Block Abortion Clinic Funds
The en banc Sixth Circuit ruled 11-6 Tuesday that Ohio can withhold funding for public health programs from abortion providers, most notably Planned Parenthood.
Read moreNorth Dakota Clinic Merger Hits Eighth Circuit
A panel of Eighth Circuit judges grappled Tuesday with the question of whether two of the largest health care providers in North Dakota should be allowed to merge amid concerns the deal will result in a monopoly detrimental to patients in the Bismark area.
Read moreFull Sixth Circuit Takes Up Abortion Clinic Funding
The 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 moreJudge Finds NY Anti-Abortion Protests Aren’t Harassment
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled late Friday that a group of anti-abortion protesters did not harass patients and escorts outside a Queens clinic, finding they have the right to continue their Saturday morning demonstrations that began in 2012.
Read moreJudge to Decide Abortion Clinic Harassment Case
A federal judge in Brooklyn heard closing arguments Tuesday in a dispute between a dozen anti-abortion protesters and the New York attorney general’s office, which says they got too aggressive outside a Queens clinic.
Read moreNurse Says Customs Agents Took Money for Nigerian Clinic
A Texas nurse traveling to Nigeria claims in a class action that U.S. customs agents wrongly seized over $41,000 in cash from her that was meant to start a clinic for women and children in the West African nation, and have refused to return it unless she signs a waiver.
Read moreParents Want Embryos Deemed People After Clinic Meltdown
A couple who lost eggs because of a freezer meltdown at a Cleveland fertility clinic is seeking a wide-ranging legal declaration that an embryo is a person, as they seek damages in a separate class action.
Read moreFreezer Meltdown at Fertility Clinic Spurs Class Actions
Off-site monitoring of a fertility clinic in a Cleveland suburb failed to alert staff to rising temperatures in a storage tank that destroyed hundreds of eggs and embryos, several couples claim in class-action lawsuits.
Read moreOhio High Court Deals Double Blow to Abortion Clinics
Two separate rulings released Tuesday by the Ohio Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the state’s abortion providers, including revoking the medical license of the last abortion provider in the northwest part of the Buckeye State.
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