Full 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.
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Judge 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.
Read moreKentucky Fetal-Heartbeat Law Flatlines in Federal Court
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the patient is unconstitutional.
Read moreOhio Defends Abortion Riders in State’s High Court
Attorneys for Ohio and a Cleveland abortion clinic argued Tuesday before the state’s high court over whether the clinic has standing to challenge abortion restrictions that were tacked on to the state budget.
Read moreOhio Pushes Its Top Court to Close Abortion Clinic
An attorney for the Ohio Department of Health argued before the state’s high court Tuesday that the last abortion provider in the northwest part of the Buckeye State must be closed because it does not have a valid agreement with a local hospital.
Read moreJudge Nixes Alabama Law Putting Pregnant Girls Through Trial
A federal judge has struck down Alabama’s one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl’s wishes.
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Anti-Abortion Protesters Stopped From Blocking Kentucky Clinic
A federal judge on Friday granted a temporary restraining order against several anti-abortion protesters who blocked the entrance to a Kentucky women’s health clinic in May and reportedly planned to do so again next week.
Read moreArkansas Abortion Laws Challenged in Federal Court
The American Civil Liberties Union, its Arkansas chapter and the Center for Reproductive Rights sued Arkansas officials to stop four new laws they say could upend a woman’s constitutionally protected right to abortion care in the state.
Read moreNew York Cracks Down on Abortion Clinic Harassment
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction and civil penalties against anti-abortion protesters harassing and threatening patients and staff at the Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens.
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