The Fifth Circuit on Thursday overturned a ruling barring Texas from eliminating Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program based on a sting video made by anti-abortion activists supposedly showing clinic representatives bartering the sale of fetal tissue.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco refused Wednesday to drop anti-abortion activist Albin Rhomberg from Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit over videos doctored to make it seem as though the health care group sells aborted fetal tissue, saying it was too early to decide the case.
Read morePlanned Parenthood has not followed the necessary steps to apply for a license to perform abortions at a New Orleans clinic so a federal lawsuit it filed alleging the state has delayed unnecessarily should be dismissed, a state attorney told a panel of three Fifth Circuit judges Wednesday.
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 moreAlready in receipt of grants that it said were threatened by the government’s new focus on abstinence, Planned Parenthood found an unreceptive audience Wednesday at the D.C. Circuit.
Read moreSlamming inaction by their colleagues, three conservative justices dissented Monday from the Supreme Court’s decision not to rule on whether patients can sue over a state pulling Medicaid funding from a specific provider like Planned Parenthood.
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 ordered a seal on the 187-page funding application that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest submitted to keep Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, calling it undisputed that the agency “has not received a FOIA request for records of the awarded contract/grant.”
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 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 temporarily has blocked Governor Henry McMaster’s latest attempt to remove Planned Parenthood from South Carolina’s Medicaid program.
Read moreA new abstinence focus at the White House inspired pushback from Planned Parenthood this year, but numerous affiliates of the organization learned Thursday afternoon that they made the list for upcoming Title X grants.
Read morePlanned Parenthood asked a federal judge Tuesday to preserve its Title X grant funding while the D.C. Circuit considers its challenge to shifts in the program’s guidelines it says will favor providers that emphasize abstinence over birth control.
Read moreA federal just indicated Thursday she won’t order Planned Parenthood to turn over information about the costs of its fetal tissue donation program that anti-abortion activists say would show it profits from aborted fetal tissue.
Read moreThe largest provider of reproductive health services in Idaho claimed in federal court Tuesday that a new Idaho law violates privacy of women seeking abortions and presents an onerous burden on medical practitioners and health care facilities that are required to report direct or indirect complications even when they might not be a result of the abortion procedure.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday sided with the government in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and two of its affiliates that argued Trump administration changes to the federal Title X funding limit the care they can provide to women.
Read moreThe Iowa Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Friday that the state’s abortion law mandating a 72-hour waiting period is an unconstitutional burden on women.
Read morePlanned Parenthood faced a steep battle Thursday as a Trump-appointed judge heard its challenge to new federal grant rules that emphasize abstinence over contraception.
Read moreSave The 1, an anti-abortion advocate for protecting children born of rape and incest, filed a motion to intervene Tuesday in a case challenging Iowa’s new fetal-heartbeat law because it says the law includes too many exceptions.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that Planned Parenthood cannot offer medication-induced abortions at two Missouri clinics, finding it did not prove that a state rule requiring a nearby doctor to be available around the clock constitutes a substantial burden to many women seeking abortions.
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