The Supreme Court will decide whether states like South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding, a decision that could impact the rights of Medicaid recipients to choose their healthcare providers.
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The dispute may result in a challenge to the New York shield law, which provides some key protections to doctors who send abortion drugs to patients in states that have banned or severely restricted the procedure.
A grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish indicted Dr. Margaret Carpenter for prescribing abortion drugs to a pregnant teenager, possibly sparking a legal standoff between Louisiana and New York.
A Monroe County judge felt that the medical exception complied with the state constitution, despite the challenges that doctors face in these situations.
A copy of an opinion “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the U.S. Supreme Court’s website on Wednesday revealed that it may allow emergency abortions in Idaho. The Idaho law at issue outlaws all abortions unless necessary to prevent a pregnant woman’s death. It does not contain exceptions for abortions necessary…
Louisiana added mifepristone and misoprostol to Schedule IV of its drug laws, becoming the first state to take this step and sparking criticism from medical providers.
The Georgia Supreme Court reversed a decision by a lower court striking down the state's "heartbeat ban," but the lower court now will consider further arguments against the law.
The Center for Reproductive Rights has taken legal action in an effort to clarify and expand patient rights in states with strict abortion bans.
Planned Parenthood sued for injunctive and declaratory relief in federal court on Wednesday over the Idaho Attorney General's assertion that the state's criminal abortion law prohibits medical providers from referring women to access abortion services outside the state.
Five women and two obstetrician-gynecologists sued Texas on Monday to clarify an exception to its near-total abortion ban that allows medical professionals to provide abortions in life-threatening emergencies.