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Abortion Rights Ballot Measures Pass in Seven States

On November 5, 2024, seven states approved ballot measures to reaffirm the right to abortion, and three states rejected ballot measures to legalize abortion. These ballot results could have a significant impact on employers...more

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The Supreme Court of Georgia Temporarily Allows LIFE Act

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On October 7, the Supreme Court of Georgia granted the State of Georgia’s Emergency Petition for Supersedeas to stay the order of the Superior Court of Fulton County permanently enjoining Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and...more

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Georgia Abortion Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional

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On September 30, the Superior Court of Fulton County held that the Georgia Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act (the LIFE Act) is unconstitutional on both due process and equal protection grounds. Accordingly, Georgia’s...more

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Kansas Supreme Court Reaffirms Fundamental Right to Abortion

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Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions striking down a series of state anti-abortion laws  passed by the Kansas Legislature. The first case challenged S.B. 95, a bill enacted by the Legislature in 2015...more

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Religious Institutions Update: January 2024

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Failure to Extend Extracurricular Opportunities to Parochial School Students Violates Free Exercise In Religious Rights Foundation of Pa. v. State College Area Sch. Dist., No. 23-CV-01144, 2023 WL 8359957 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 1,...more

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Abortion Rights to Be Codified in Ohio State Constitution

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On November 7, 2023, the citizens of the state of Ohio voted to codify reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, in the state constitution. In 2019, Ohio banned nearly all abortions once fetal cardiac...more

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Ohio Voters Pass Reproductive Freedoms Amendment to State Constitution

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On November 7, 2023, Ohio voters passed Issue 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety, to establish the constitutional right to certain reproductive decisions. The new right will be...more

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Supreme Court of Georgia Upholds 6-Week Abortion Law

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The Supreme Court of Georgia issued an opinion reversing the Superior Court of Fulton County’s 2022 ruling that Sections 4 and 11 of the Georgia LIFE Act (the Act) were void ab initio....more

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[Webinar] Abortion Access Post-Dobbs: Confusion, Confrontation and the Courts - July 11th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

One year ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the decades of decisions that had followed it, resting authority to regulate or prohibit abortion with the citizens of each state. But one year after Dobbs, the legal...more

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Supreme Court of Georgia Reinstates 6-Week Abortion Law

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On Nov. 23, the Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. The Supreme Court of Georgia issued a one-page order granting the State of Georgia’s Emergency...more

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Important Update: Georgia Abortion Law Remains in Effect Until Judicial Review

Ruling on the State of Georgia’s November 18, 2022 Emergency Petition for Supersedeas, this past Wednesday (November 23, 2022) the Georgia Supreme Court enjoined the lower court’s decision thereby reinstating the prohibitions...more

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Georgia 6-Week Abortion Law Is Void Ab Initio

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Key Takeaways - ..On Nov. 15, The Superior Court of Fulton County declared sections of Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban void and unenforceable. ..The Court held that because the ban was unconstitutional at the time it...more

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Breaking News: Georgia Court Overturns State Abortion Law

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its seminal decision on abortion, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and the right to terminate a pregnancy before viability, which...more

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Five States Put Abortion Questions on the Ballot; Health Care and Other Employers Should Stay Tuned

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In the wake of the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we have been closely monitoring legal developments across the country. In addition to well publicized “trigger laws” that were effectuated...more

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Give the People What They Want: Five States Put Abortion Questions on the Ballot

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In the wake of the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we have been closely monitoring legal developments across the country. In addition to well publicized “trigger laws” that were effectuated...more

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Evolving Laws and Litigation Post–Dobbs: The State of Reproductive Rights as of September 29

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Recent developments reinforce the importance of state litigation to reproductive rights post-Dobbs. In Indiana, a court blocked enforcement of the state’s new abortion prohibition, finding that the ban could contravene rights...more

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A Post Roe World: California’s response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, California has taken significant steps to ensure continued ability to access abortion care in the state, and making additional funds available to...more

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Evolving Laws and Litigation Post–Dobbs: The State of Reproductive Rights as of August 23

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Litigation over the effectiveness of various state abortion laws and state legislative efforts continues as we near two months after the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling. The last of the state trigger laws are set to go into...more

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Minnesota Court Declares Restrictions on Abortion Unconstitutional - State Level-Decisions Become Increasingly Important for...

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A Ramsey County District Court Judge has ruled that several provisions in state law related to abortion violate the state constitution, including mandatory physician informed consent disclosures followed by a 24-hour waiting...more

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Florida Reexamines Abortion Rights Under Its State Constitution Post-Dobbs

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According to statistics published in U.S. News & World Report, Florida has the fifth-highest rate of abortions performed per 1,000 women among all 50 states, and it trails only California and New York in the actual number of...more

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Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Law Limiting Abortion Services

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Working in partnership with abortion service providers and civil liberties groups, a Jenner & Block team filed a lawsuit in Florida to block the implementation of a new state law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of...more

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HHS Issues Notice of Violation to California for its Universal Abortion Coverage Mandate

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On Friday afternoon, January 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Violation to the state of California demanding that the state stop imposing...more

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