Planned Parenthood is building the stage for another possible fight over abortion in Alabama: a large women’s clinic that’s under construction despite the state’s passage of a near-total ban on abortions.
Read morePlanned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate federal lawsuits Tuesday to block a rule that would let medical providers refuse or even withhold information about treatment based on so-called “conscience-based” objections.
Read moreRescuing Missouri’s lone abortion provider, a St. Louis judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday barring state officials from revoking the clinic’s license.
Read morePlanned Parenthood urged a St. Louis judge Wednesday to issue a preliminary injunction barring Missouri officials from pulling the plug on the state’s only remaining abortion clinic.
Read morePlanned Parenthood won the first round Tuesday in a legal battle to keep Missouri’s only abortion clinic open, after a St. Louis judge quashed subpoenas seeking the testimony of four doctors in the state’s bid to pull the clinic’s license.
Read moreMissouri’s lone abortion clinic will stay open for now after a St. Louis judge issued a restraining order Friday afternoon requiring the state to renew its license.
Read moreMissouri’s lone abortion provider could lose its license at the end of the week, according to a lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of St. Louis on Tuesday.
Read moreAbortion providers backed by the American Civil Liberties Union filed an anticipated lawsuit Friday morning challenging the constitutionality of Alabama’s near-total ban on the procedure, kicking off a legal battle that supporters of the ban hope will land in the nation’s highest court.
Read moreSixteen Fifth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday on whether Texas can sever Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program, in a case stemming from a 2015 sting video made by anti-abortion activists that supposedly shows clinic representatives bartering the sale of fetal tissue.
Read moreThe Idaho Legislature has amended a law requiring medical providers to report complications of abortions, as a result of a lawsuit filed last July by the largest provider of reproductive services in Idaho.
Read moreA federal judge denied the Wisconsin Legislature’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood over laws that limit access to abortion care and abortion-inducing medications.
Read moreAfter two years of legal wrangling, a California judge will soon decide if there is enough evidence to try two anti-abortion activists who surreptitiously recorded Planned Parenthood staff supposedly arranging the sale of aborted fetal tissue, in a case some fear will hamstring journalists who go undercover to expose wrongdoing.
Read moreArizona’s abortion laws – including a telemedicine ban and an effective ban on abortion services by anyone other than a doctor – block access and violate the 14th Amendment, Planned Parenthood of Arizona and three health care providers say in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read morePlanned Parenthood sued the Utah Department of Health in federal court Wednesday over a controversial law banning abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy.
Read moreA lawyer for Planned Parenthood fought to upend Virginia’s tough abortion restrictions Monday, telling a federal judge the laws have diminished access to the point where some women have been unable to undergo the procedure before 10 weeks, the period in which abortions are safest.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal Monday brought by an anti-abortion group being sued by Planned Parenthood on claims the group’s surreptitious recording of employees and editing of a video falsely implies Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue of aborted fetuses.
Read moreThe 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 moreSACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Joining Planned Parenthood’s fight against an “immoral” proposal that could deprive women access to contraception and
Read moreThe California Planned Parenthood Education Fund sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for records on its plan to change Title X funding, which it says will have “grave consequences on public health” by limiting poor and minority women’s access to contraceptives.
Read morePlanned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains is not entitled to summary judgment in a case over the fatal shooting carried out on Nov. 27, 2015, by Robert Dear, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled, finding that Planned Parenthood knew violence could be expected at its clinics, based in part on death threats to its medical director.
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