<p><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e2a3c1fbb1b0019638a91-2400/818509e4d83c0dae8541311c593a0a33.jpg" border="0" alt="FILE - In this Wednesday, March 4, 2020 file photo, abortion rights demonstrators including Jaylene Solache, of Dallas, Texas, right, rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington. In some states, the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has fueled attempts to ban abortions. Where the procedure remains available, some abortion providers report increased demand, often from women distraught over economic stress and health concerns linked to the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" data-mce-source="Associated Press" data-mce-caption="FILE - In this Wednesday, March 4, 2020 file photo, abortion rights demonstrators including Jaylene Solache, of Dallas, Texas, right, rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington. In some states, the 2020 COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has fueled attempts to ban abortions. Where the procedure remains available, some abortion providers report increased demand, often from women distraught over economic stress and health concerns linked to the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)"></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p><em>Roe v. Wade</em> could soon be history.</p><p>Much of it anyway, even with President Joe Biden in the White House and a slim Democratic majority in Congress. Before losing his re-election, former President Donald Trump cemented a 6-3 conservative majority Supreme Court that could rule in favor of a myriad anti-abortion cases making their way through the lower courts.</p><p><em>Roe</em>, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made it illegal for states to ban abortion, is facing its biggest threat in decades ever since the Republican-led Senate's confirmation of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-to-pick-judge-amy-coney-barrett-to-replace-ginsburg-on-the-supreme-court-2020-9">Judge Amy Coney Barrett</a>, who has an anti-abortion <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-record-trump-supreme-court/">judicial record</a>. Trump picked Barrett to replace <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-died-2019-8">Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> after her death in September. </p><p>A two-thirds conservative court is the worst possible outcome for reproductive rights groups that are already panicking about the near certainty that safe abortions could become<a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/25-million-women-risk-losing-abortion-access-if-brett-kavanaugh-confirmed"> harder to access</a> for millions, especially low-income people</p><p>"There is no question that the risk of<em> Roe </em>being overturned is probably the highest it's been in 25 years," said Helene Krasnoff, vice president of public policy litigation for the reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/planned-parenthood-president-biden-supreme-court-congress-interview-2021-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood's president on the big changes ahead for reproductive rights and her organization's many other asks of the Biden administration</a></em></p><h2>A 'turning point' for the anti-abortion movement</h2><p>More than a dozen cases, many filed by conservative states, could soon reach the conservative Supreme Court.</p><p>If the options go the way of Republicans they could chip away at abortion's legality, including by blocking Planned Parenthood from getting government healthcare funds, limiting how far into pregnancy abortions can be done, the kinds of surgical methods doctors can use, or placing restrictive rules on abortion providers. Others ban abortions on the basis of fetal race, sex, or disability. </p><p>These are all goals that have been sought by conservatives for years but became a real possibility once Trump became president and more so when he made his third lifetime appointment to the high court, after picking Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. </p><p>It's a "turning point" for the anti-abortion movement, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List said when Trump had the chance to add a sixth conservative to the court. </p><p>When Trump was president he was hailed by conservatives as the "most pro-life president" in US history and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/abortion-laws-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several red states</a>, including Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and Mississippi, passed abortion restrictions that are now tied up in legal challenges.</p><p>The Supreme Court only takes up a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/justice-101/federal-courts#:~:text=The%20district%20courts%20are%20the,system%20%E2%80%93%20both%20civil%20and%20criminal." target="_blank" rel="noopener">small subset</a> of requests to hear cases. But right now, many of the legal challenges to abortion laws across the country could reach the high court for a final verdict or cause the justices to look more broadly at <em>Roe</em>. If the Supreme Court were to overturn <em>Roe</em>, states would have to decide whether to keep abortion legal within their borders. </p><p>Reproductive rights groups have been sounding the alarm for years as several red states have regulated abortion clinics out of business. Even if the Supreme Court doesn't overturn <em>Roe</em>, it can still place strict limits on abortions.</p><p>For instance, the Supreme Court blocked telemedicine abortions in most states on January 12 after they were happening during the pandemic. To obtain medication abortions, people have to meet with doctors or nurses in person to receive the pills. Reproductive rights groups <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/planned-parenthood-biden-administration-abortion-pill-telemedicine-restrictions-2021-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">want</a> the Biden administration to reverse the decision as soon as possible.</p><p>"The court doesn't have to overrule <em>Roe</em> to make abortion inaccessible," said Noel Leon, an attorney at the National Women's Law Center. <br><br>The Supreme Court is already considering a handful of abortion cases, and others aren't that far off from reaching the high court. Insider reviewed 16 cases being closely watched by both sides of the abortion debate. Two of those cases is close to going before the Supreme Court, which requires the consent of four justices for a case to land on the docket.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-executive-orders-abortion-gender-lgbtq-transgender-rights-trump-2021-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden gets busy reversing Trump-era restrictions on gender and reproductive rights. His policies are even more progressive than past Democratic presidents.</a></em></p><p><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e9a9074fe5b0018a8da34-2000/GettyImages-1194404863.jpg" border="0" alt="Ruth Bader Ginsburg RBG 2019 laureatte" data-mce-source="Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Berggruen Institute" data-mce-caption="NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 16: Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks onstage at the Fourth Annual Berggruen Prize Gala celebrating 2019 Laureate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg In New York City on December 16, 2019 in New York City."></p><h2><strong>15-week abortion ban</strong></h2><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/18-60868/18-60868-2019-12-13.html"><em>Jackson Whole Woman's Health Organization v. Thomas Dobbs</em></a><em> </em></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>The case, brought by an abortion clinic and its patients, challenges a Mississippi law that would have imposed a ban beginning in 2018 on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. <em>Roe</em> allows the procedure up to the point of fetal viability, which doctors place at about 24 weeks into a pregnancy.</p><p><strong>Where it stands: </strong>The law was blocked by the lower courts early this year, and the state appealed the case to the Supreme Court. </p><p><strong>Timeline: </strong>Supreme Court justices <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-1392.html">rescheduled their meetings on the case nine times</a>. They eventually did meet about it three times in January 2021 but haven't decided whether to take it up. </p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-healthcare-pelosi-schumer-scotus-ginsburg-rbg-obamacare-2020-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leaked internal memos reveal the Democratic plan to use the battle over RGB's replacement to Joe Biden's advantage</a></em></p><h2><strong>Blocking federal family planning dollars </strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://policyintegrity.org/documents/Opinion_Fourth_Circuit_09.03.20.pdf"><em>Baltimore v. Azar </em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about:</strong> The Trump administration wrote new rules in February 2019 that prohibit medical providers who receive money from a family planning program known as Title X from directly referring patients for abortions. Planned Parenthood withdrew from the program and sued. </p><p><strong>Status: </strong>Biden directed health agencies to review the Trump administration rules and to consider gutting them, though the process will take months and perhaps even more than a year. The Supreme Court is <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-454.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering</a> whether to hear the case. Justices met on January 22 to discuss it but haven't announced a decision. </p><p><em><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e29f01fbb1b0019638a8e-2220/2019-06-04t175737z_1_lynxnpef531nw_rtroptp_4_usa-abortion-protest.jpg" border="0" alt="abortion protest" data-mce-source="Kevin Lamarque/Reuters"></em></p><p>At least 14 other cases are making their way through the lower courts and could be escalated to the Supreme Court.</p><h2><strong>On the basis of Down syndrome</strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/21867/preterm-cleveland-v-amy-acton/"><em>Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio v. Amy Acton</em></a> <br><strong><br></strong><strong>What it's about: </strong>Planned Parenthood is challenging a 2017 Ohio law that makes it illegal for doctors to perform abortions if they know a patient is seeking one because of a prenatal diagnosis of the genetic disorder Down syndrome. </p><p><strong>Status: </strong>Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio blocked the law in 2018, and now the case is waiting on a decision from the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. After a verdict, the could be appealed to the Supreme Court by the losing side. </p><p><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e2a1ea5fb5800198b2ea6-2400/2020-06-29t143048z_2_lynxmpeg5s1bl_rtroptp_4_usa-court-abortion.jpg" border="0" alt="An anti-abortion activists, one holding a replica of a human fetus, read about a U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling after the court defended abortion rights by striking down a Louisiana law placing restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure, as demonstrators gather outside the court in Washington, U.S., June 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria" data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="Anti-abortion activists gather outside U.S. Supreme Court in Washington"></p><h2><strong>Abortion bans at different stages of a pregnancy</strong></h2><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://www.law360.com/cases/5d16326b9f625905235a3d1a"><em>SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. Kemp </em><br><br></a><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, challenged a 2019 Georgia law that banned abortion after six weeks, which is often before many women know they're pregnant. Abortion opponents call those statutes "heartbeat laws," referring the time when cardiac activity can be detected. </p><p><strong>Status:</strong> A district court blocked the law and the state <a href="https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2020/08/11/kemp-appeals-judges-order-blocking-abortion-ban/">appealed</a> it to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on August 11, where a hearing has not yet been set.</p><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://casetext.com/case/bryant-v-woodall-2"><em>Amy Bryant v. Jim Woodall</em></a> <strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong><strong>What it's about: </strong>Abortion rights groups challenged a North Carolina law that banned abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy. While the law had been on the books for decades, state lawmakers tried to tighten its exemptions in 2015.</p><p><strong>Status: </strong>A federal judge struck down the ban in 2019 and state officials appealed it to the 4th Circuit. Oral arguments have not yet been scheduled.</p><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://adflegal.blob.core.windows.net/mainsite-new/docs/default-source/documents/legal-documents/reproductive-health-services-of-planned-parenthood-of-the-st.-louis-region-v.-parson/reproductive-health-services-of-planned-parenthood-of-the-st-louis-region-v-parson---friend-of-the-court-brief.pdf"><em>Reproductive Health Services v. Parson </em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups challenged a 2019 Missouri law that bans abortion after eight weeks. The law was written in such a way that other bans would take effect if one failed. So if the eight-week ban were to be found unconstitutional, a 14-week ban would take effect, and subsequently an 18-week ban, and so on. </p><p>The law also banned abortions on the basis of race, sex, or a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. <br><br><strong>Status:</strong> A federal judge blocked the time and reason bans in the law, and Missouri appealed it to the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court US Court of Appeals. Oral arguments <a href="https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/webcal/sep20stl.pdf">took place through video conference</a> on September 24. </p><p><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e2bb1a5fb5800198b2eb3-2400/9f1a51759fb33d229170c73986ccb252.jpg" border="0" alt="FILE - In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019 file photo, a Planned Parenthood clinic is seen in St. Louis. Missouri's only abortion clinic will be able to keep operating after a state government administrator decided Friday, May 29, 2020, that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of Planned Parenthood's St. Louis facility. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)" data-mce-source="Associated Press" data-mce-caption="FILE - In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019 file photo, a Planned Parenthood clinic is seen in St. Louis. Missouri's only abortion clinic will be able to keep operating after a state government administrator decided Friday, May 29, 2020, that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of Planned Parenthood's St. Louis facility. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)"></p><h2><strong>Separate bills for abortion coverage</strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://casetext.com/case/planned-parenthood-of-md-inc-v-azar"><em>Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. v. Azar</em></a><br><br><strong>What it's about: </strong>Under Trump administration rules issued in 2019, health insurers that participate in the Affordable Care Actformer President Barack Obama's signature healthcare lawhave to send different premium bills to customers to separate abortion from other types of coverage. ACA plans get government subsidies and therefore aren't supposed to pay for abortions, but four <a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/coverage-for-abortion-services-in-medicaid-marketplace-plans-and-private-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> mandate health insurers do so. <strong><br></strong></p><p>Planned Parenthood and four people sued over the Trump rules, saying the added step would dissuade insurers from covering abortions. <br><br><strong>Status:</strong> By 2020, three federal district courts had <a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/the-status-and-likely-impact-of-final-regulations-on-payments-for-abortion-coverage-in-aca-marketplace-plans/">struck down</a> the rule and the Trump administration has appealed two decisions to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Biden's Health and Human Services Department is likely to change the rules, but it'll take months or even more tahn a year. </p><p><img src="https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e367b1fbb1b0019638b06-1425/Supreme Court Protest.jpg" border="0" alt="Supreme Court Protest" data-mce-source="Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Anti-abortion activists participate in the &quotMarch for Life,&quot an annual event to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade."></p><h2><strong>Banning dilation and evacuation in Texas and Arkansas</strong></h2><p><strong>Case: <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/17-51060/17-51060-2020-08-21.html"><em>Whole Woman's Health v. Ken Paxton</em></a></strong></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>A 2017 Texas law banned an abortion method known as dilation and evacuation, in which forceps and a vacuum are used to end a pregnancy. It's the most common type of abortion used in the second trimester. </p><p><strong>Status: </strong>A district court blocked the law. An appeals court then held off on issuing a ruling while it waited for a decision on another similar case before the Supreme Court. The high court eventually ruled in favor of abortion rights groups. Texas officials on August 25 then <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13oDfTM3Ev1-tXqIeUYhozBFlQlbyK20c/view">appealed</a> the dilation and evacuation case to the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit to have the full bench re-hear it. The full bench heard the case January 21 and hasn't yet made a decision. </p><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca8/17-2879/17-2879-2020-08-07.html"><em>Frederick W. Hopkins v. Larry Jegley</em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups have challenged four abortion restrictions in Arkansas, including a 2017 ban on abortions by dilation and evacuation. <br><br><strong>Status: </strong>A district court blocked the law, and Arkansas officials appealed it to the 8th Circuit. A three-judge panel on the appeals court <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/17-2879.pdf">removed the block on the law.</a> Reproductive rights groups then <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/aug/22/rehearing-sought-in-abortion-ruling/">filed a petition</a> on August 21 to have the case re-heard before a full panel of judges. </p><p><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e2af31fbb1b0019638a97-2400/2020-07-03t025123z_1_lynxmpeg62056_rtroptp_4_usa-court-abortion-zones.jpg" border="0" alt="FILE PHOTO: The Supreme Court building exterior seen in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger./File Photo" data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="FILE PHOTO: Supreme Court Building"></p><h2><strong>Burying or cremating fetal tissue from abortions </strong></h2><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://casetext.com/case/whole-womans-health-v-smith-2"><em>Whole Woman's Health v. Charles Smith</em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups challenged a 2017 law in Texas that required tissue obtained from an abortion to be buried or cremated. The plaintiffs argued that it was impossible for women who completed their abortions at home using the prescribed pill to follow that rule. They argued that the rule instead shamed the women for their decisions to terminate their pregnancies. <br><br><strong>Status: </strong>A district court in 2018 blocked the law from taking effect. The state then escalated its challenge to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which decided to hold off on a ruling until the Supreme Court decided another case. The Supreme Court case upheld abortion rights and the parties <a href="https://www.caller.com/story/news/2020/09/23/texas-cases-raise-stakes-in-fight-to-replace-ginsburg/3503323001/">are waiting</a> to see how the 5th Circuit rules in the case.</p><p><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e2b8da5fb5800198b2eb2-2400/c9c6eee97277d6e8e71f568cde830e46.jpg" border="0" alt="Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, Monday, June 29, 2020 in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)" data-mce-source="Associated Press" data-mce-caption="Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, Monday, June 29, 2020 in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)"></p><h2><strong>Parental consent </strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Brasher-brief-RHS.pdf"><em>Reproductive Health Services v. Daryl Bailey </em></a><br><br><strong>What it's about: </strong>The ACLU and an abortion clinic challenged a 2014 Alabama law that made it harder for minors to seeks waivers that would permit them to get abortions without the consent of their parents or guardians. The law would have allowed a judge to appoint a lawyer to represent the fetus and for parents of the pregnant girl to get involved in the proceedings. </p><p><strong>Status: </strong>The Alabama law was struck down by a district court in 2017. The state appealed it to the 11th Circuit, which has not yet issued a ruling. </p><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl'Submit=Display&Path=Y2019/D10-30/C:17-2428:J:Kanne:dis:T:opDr:N:2422451:S:0"><em>Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky, Inc. v. Kristina Box</em></a> </p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups challenged a similar 2017 Indiana law that requires minors to get parental consent for abortions. <br><br><strong>Status: </strong>The case escalated to the Supreme Court after the Chicago-based 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals blocked the law. The Supreme Court wouldn't take up the case, telling the appeals court <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-abortion/u-s-supreme-court-tosses-rulings-blocking-indiana-abortion-curbs-idUSKBN2432B9">to first reconsider</a> its decision to halt the law. In August, Indiana officials <a href="https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/indiana-again-asks-full-7th-circuit-to-hear-parental-notice-abortion-case">asked</a> the full bench of the 7th Circuit to hear the case. </p><p><img src="https://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e576b74fe5b0018a8d9c3-2400/2020-03-04t110256z_1_lynxmpeg230x6_rtroptp_4_usa-court-abortion.jpg" border="0" alt="FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Police guard the building during a protest against anti-abortion legislation at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan" data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="U.S. Supreme Court Police guard the building during a protest against anti-abortion legislation at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington"></p><h2><strong>Medical requirements for abortion providers </strong></h2><p><strong>Case:</strong> <a href="https://ag.ky.gov/pdf_news/20190403_AmicusBrief.pdf"><em>EMW Women's Surgical Center v. Adam Meier</em> </a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>A Kentucky law required that abortion clinics have agreements with local hospitals to accept patients in case of complications from an abortion. The law also required abortion providers to have contracts with ambulances to transport patients facing complications to hospitals. Abortion clinics typically don't have such agreements because reported complications are rare, and when they do happen a patient is more likely to be at home. The law is several decades oldand wasn't being enforcedbut clinics sued after the state revoked their medical licenses in 2017 for lack of those connections to hospitals and ambulances. <br><br><strong>Status:</strong> A district court struck down the law and it was appealed to the 6th Circuit, which hasn't issued a ruling yet. The law is similar to two decisions that have already been struck down by the Supreme Court.</p><h3><img src="https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e57b00ab50d00184aca03-2400/gettyimages-1145437682.jpg" border="0" alt="abortion ohio" data-mce-source="Megan Jelinger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="An activist in Dayton, Ohio, seen holding a placard that says keep clinics open during the protest"></h3><h2><strong>Restrictions on abortion timeline and reason in Arkansas and Tennessee</strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/arkansas/aredce/4:2020cv00470/121905/26/"><em>Little Rock Family Planning Services v. Rutledge</em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>A 2019 Arkansas law banned abortion after 18 weeks and required that the procedure be only performed by board-certified or board-eligible OB-GYNs. The law also made it illegal for providers to conduct an abortion if they know that a woman is asking for one because of a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The law was challenged by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. </p><p><strong>Status:</strong> A district court blocked the law and the state appealed it to the 8th Circuit. The three-judge panel on the 8th Circuit <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jan/06/halt-of-2-abortion-laws-upheld/'news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kept the law blocked</a> in a ruling issued January 6. The case may be appealed. </p><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17281219/memphis-center-for-reproductive-health-v-slatery/"><em>Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Herbert H. Slatery III </em></a></p><p><strong>What it's about: </strong>Reproductive rights groups challenged a 2020 Tennessee law that banned abortions at different points in the pregnancy. It also prohibited abortions on the basis of race, sex, and prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. </p><p><strong>Status:</strong> A district court blocked the law and the state <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17281219/memphis-center-for-reproductive-health-v-slatery/">appealed</a> it to the 6th Circuit on August 21. </p><p><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5f6e57dc74fe5b0018a8d9c8-2400/2020-03-04t171718z_2_lynxmpeg231of_rtroptp_4_usa-court-abortion.jpg" border="0" alt="Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators argue outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner" data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="U.S. Supreme Court justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washington"></p><h2><strong>Reporting requirements for abortion complications</strong></h2><p><strong>Case: </strong><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/17-3163/17-3163-2018-04-19.html"><em>Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health</em></a> <strong><br><br></strong><strong>What it's about:</strong> Planned Parenthood challenged a 2018 Indiana law that required abortion providers to report all complications associated with the procedures under their care. The law required providers to file a list of complications annually, including details on whether women suffered psychological or emotional problems after an abortion. </p><p><strong>Status:</strong> A federal judge <a href="https://www.aclu-in.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/complications_decision.pdf">blocked the law</a> last year, saying its requirements were too vague. The state then <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/INAG/2020/09/09/file_attachments/1540741/08%20-%20Brief%20and%20Required%20Short%20Appendix%20of%20Appellants.pdf">appealed</a> the decision to the 7th Circuit on September 8. </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rbg-abortion-rights-supreme-court-trump-roe-wade-nominee-2020-9#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-do-your-own-taxes-for-the-very-first-time-2018-2">July 15 is Tax Dayhere's what it's like to do your own taxes for the very first time</a></p>
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