Reproductive Freedom
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region et al., v. Ohio Department of Health, et al.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the law firm WilmerHale, and Fanon Rucker of the Cochran Law Firm, on behalf of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, Preterm-Cleveland, Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation, Dr. Sharon Liner, and Julia Quinn, MSN, BSN, amended a complaint in an existing lawsuit against a ban on telehealth medication abortion services to bring new claims under the Ohio Reproductive Freedom Amendment, including additional challenges to other laws in Ohio that restrict access to medication abortion in the state.
Status: Ongoing
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2024
![Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States
Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Idaho politicians seeking to disregard a federal statute — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) — and put doctors in jail for providing pregnant patients necessary emergency medical care. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this case on April 24, 2024. The Court’s ultimate decision will impact access to this essential care across the country.
Status: Ongoing
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2023
![Danco Laboratories, LLC, v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine; U.S. FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Danco Laboratories, LLC, v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine; U.S. FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
The American Civil Liberties Union joined over 200 reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of an emergency request to stay a decision issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that severely restricted the use of mifepristone — a medication used in most abortions in this country — and threatened the innovation of new drugs and the ability of Americans to access lifesaving drugs.
Status: Stayed
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2022
![Bans Off Our Bodies Protest Sign](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/01/BanOffOurBodies.jpg)
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The case concerns the constitutionality of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The state used the case as a vehicle to ask the Supreme Court to take away the federal constitutional right to abortion it first recognized 50 years before in Roe v. Wade. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States accepted the state’s invitation and overturned Roe eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 2022
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Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center
In 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers and their patients challenging a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or “D&E.” If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. After two courts held that the law is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled in March 2022 that Kentucky Attorney General Cameron can continue his pursuit to push abortion out of reach by intervening in the underlying challenge to an abortion ban, which is proceeding in a lower court.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Dec 2021
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Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas, and coalition partners filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of abortion providers and funds on July 13, 2021, challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law allowing private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion as early as six weeks in pregnancy—before many know they are pregnant. The ACLU’s challenge made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court three times in as many months. After hearing oral arguments in the case, the Court issued a decision on December 10, 2021, that ended the most promising pathways to blocking the ban. The Supreme Court’s decision makes it more difficult to obtain adequate relief from the courts and gives states the green light to ban abortion using bounty-hunting schemes. Texas’ abortion ban will remain in effect until relief can be secured from a court.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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Kentucky
Aug 2022
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EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Friedlander: Ban on Safe Abortion Procedure
In 2018, the ACLU and the ACLU of Kentucky filed suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers to challenge a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or “D&E.” If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. The law imposes serious harm on patients' health and dignity.
Status: Ongoing
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Kentucky
Reproductive Freedom
EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Friedlander: Ban on Safe Abortion Procedure
In 2018, the ACLU and the ACLU of Kentucky filed suit on behalf of Kentucky abortion providers to challenge a state law banning physicians from providing a safe and medically proven abortion method called dilation and evacuation, or “D&E.” If it were to take effect, this law would prevent many patients from being able to obtain an abortion altogether. The law imposes serious harm on patients' health and dignity.
Aug 2022
Status: Ongoing
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West Virginia
Aug 2022
![Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, et al. v. Charles Miller, et al.](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, et al. v. Charles Miller, et al.
Following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade – the landmark decision that acknowledged the right to an abortion to millions of Americans for nearly five decades – West Virginia medical providers and advocates filed a lawsuit on June 29, 2022 to prevent the enforcement of an archaic and cruel abortion ban in state court.
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![Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, et al. v. Charles Miller, et al.](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
West Virginia
Reproductive Freedom
Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, et al. v. Charles Miller, et al.
Following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade – the landmark decision that acknowledged the right to an abortion to millions of Americans for nearly five decades – West Virginia medical providers and advocates filed a lawsuit on June 29, 2022 to prevent the enforcement of an archaic and cruel abortion ban in state court.
Aug 2022
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Aug 2022
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Planned Parenthood South Atlantic et al v. Moore et al
The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed sweeping litigation on behalf of North Carolina abortion providers and reproductive justice activists challenging several abortion restrictions in the state.
Status: Ongoing
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![Planned Parenthood South Atlantic et al v. Moore et al](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Reproductive Freedom
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic et al v. Moore et al
The ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed sweeping litigation on behalf of North Carolina abortion providers and reproductive justice activists challenging several abortion restrictions in the state.
Aug 2022
Status: Ongoing
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Kentucky
Aug 2022
![EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Meier: Six-Week Ban and Reason Ban](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Meier: Six-Week Ban and Reason Ban
In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two new Kentucky laws. One law is a ban on abortion at 6-weeks in pregnancy, and the other law would ban abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. Both laws are unconstitutional bans on abortion, and they intrude into the personal health decisions of women and families.
Status: Ongoing
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![EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Meier: Six-Week Ban and Reason Ban](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Kentucky
Reproductive Freedom
EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Meier: Six-Week Ban and Reason Ban
In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two new Kentucky laws. One law is a ban on abortion at 6-weeks in pregnancy, and the other law would ban abortion based on the specific reasons for the person’s decision, such as a fetal diagnosis. Both laws are unconstitutional bans on abortion, and they intrude into the personal health decisions of women and families.
Aug 2022
Status: Ongoing
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Jul 2022
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SisterSong v. State of Georgia
Georgia physicians, reproductive health care providers, and advocates filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County on June 26, bringing a state constitutional challenge against H.B. 481, a law banning abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy — just two weeks after a person’s first missed period and before many people even know they are pregnant. This lawsuit comes one week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s six-week ban to take effect for the first time since it was passed in 2019, causing an immediate, devastating crisis as clinics were forced to turn away patients in waiting rooms across the state and to cancel many upcoming appointments.
Status: Ongoing
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Reproductive Freedom
SisterSong v. State of Georgia
Georgia physicians, reproductive health care providers, and advocates filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County on June 26, bringing a state constitutional challenge against H.B. 481, a law banning abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy — just two weeks after a person’s first missed period and before many people even know they are pregnant. This lawsuit comes one week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s six-week ban to take effect for the first time since it was passed in 2019, causing an immediate, devastating crisis as clinics were forced to turn away patients in waiting rooms across the state and to cancel many upcoming appointments.
Jul 2022
Status: Ongoing
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