At least 20 abortion cases are steps from the US Supreme Court. Any one could gut Roe v. Wade.
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Louisiana
June Medical Services v. Gee
This is the case the high court delayed taking effect in early February. It involves a 2014 law that requires physicians at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and which is nearly identical to a Texas law that the Supreme Court struck down in 2016.
Opponents have argued the law unduly burdens a woman's access to abortion - and it has been tied up in the courts ever since having never taken effect. After the high court blocked the rule from taking effect, Robert Barnes wrote in The Washington Post that "it seems likely the full court will now grant the case a full briefing and review."
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Indiana
Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky v. Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health
There are two key abortion cases pending in Indiana involving a measure signed into law three years ago.
The first challenges a provision that would prohibit abortions based on race, sex or disability, as well as a mandate that fetal remains be buried or cremated.
The second takes issue with an 18-hour waiting period between a required ultrasound and an abortion.
In the first lawsuit, the local Planned Parenthood affiliate argued that prohibiting abortion on such a basis was unconstitutional, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction shortly after the legislation became law.
In the second case, involving the 18-hour waiting period, Pratt struck down that part of the law.
She said the state had failed to prove an 18-hour waiting period for an abortion would have any impact on a woman's decision to go ahead with the procedure, according to the Indianapolis Star.
She also noted it would place an undue burden on some women, particularly lower-income women.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill last year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the first case, and on Feb. 4, he appealed to the court to hear the ultrasound case.
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Mississippi
Whole Woman's Health Organization v. Thomas Dobbs
The case involves a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A federal judge in November permanently blocked it, declaring it unconstitutional. According to Rewire News, "the decision reaffirms that viability is the constitutional standard to judge these types of abortion restrictions, and that at 15 weeks, a fetus is not viable and therefore the state cannot ban abortion care at that point. U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves took lawmakers to task for the law in a strongly worded opinion that said the ban was obviously unconstitutional but that Mississippi lawmakers enacted it anyway." The state of Mississippi has appealed.
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Texas
Whole Woman's Health, Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Ken Paxton
Abortion rights groups have been fighting a ban on a common abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation or D&E, typically used in second-trimester pregnancies. In 2017, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel stopped the D&E ban from taking effect as it was an "undue burden" on women, according to the Austin Chronicle. Texas appealed, and the case was argued in November. A decision is pending.
Courts in Alabama, Arkansas and Kansas have also blocked similar laws from taking effect.
On Thursday, according to the Cleveland.com, Planned Parenthood and other supporters of abortion rights sued to block a ban on dilation and evacuation in Ohio that was signed into law in December.
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