Pregnant woman sues Kentucky for right to have abortion The February ruling also made Kentucky the first state to require patients to bring their own legal challenges against abortion bans. The federal court system, along with most state courts, allows doctors to bring a lawsuit on their patient’s behalf, sparing pregnant people seeking abortion care … Read more
Johnathan Stone, an attorney with the Texas attorney general’s office who represented the state in the hearing, argued that Cox and her husband had not sufficiently demonstrated that they would suffer “immediate and irreparable injury” without an abortion. Read more at NBC News
In an emergency request, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a judge to allow Kate Cox to terminate her pregnancy after she received a lethal fetal diagnosis. Read more at 19th News
The suit brought by the Center for Reproductive Freedom charges that many of the 22 women were denied care because, despite the severity of the damage that the nonviable pregnancy was doing their body, doctors told them they weren’t quite sick enough for it to be clearly life threatening. Read more at The Hill
Now, though, Mathisen has gone public with her story. She is one of 20 Texas women who have sued their home state, arguing that they were denied medically necessary abortions. While Texas bans almost all abortions, the procedure, according to state law, should be allowed in medical emergencies. But abortion rights advocates and doctors in … Read more
At the most recent debate this month, Haley said she would sign “anything” banning abortion that could pass Congress — whether it were at six weeks or 15 weeks. Read more at NBC News
If Issue 1 fails, supporters of the proposal believe the state’s supreme court will reinstate a six-week abortion ban Read more at The Guardian
Abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy will remain illegal in Georgia, the state’s supreme court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling will allow the state’s six-week ban, which was first passed in 2019 and took effect after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last year, to stay in place while litigation over the … Read more
Arguments in the case arrive just weeks before Ohio will become the only state in the United States to vote directly on abortion in 2023. On 7 November, voters will have the chance to decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. If the Ohio supreme court rules to reinstate the state’s six-week … Read more
Florida supreme court to hear abortion case that could drastically limit access Friday’s hearing is the culmination of Republican efforts to end Florida’s legacy as a safe haven for abortion seekers in neighboring states. Five of the seven justices on the current state supreme court were selected by the conservative governor, Ron DeSantis, fueling the … Read more
