Archive for July 2nd, 2008
Case Status Update: South Dakota’s Informed Consent Provisions Bypass Hurdle in Planned Parenthood v. Rounds
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008In a decision issued last week by the Eighth Circuit (sitting en banc), the Court reversed a preliminary injunction that had blocked the enforcement of certain provisions of South Dakota’s informed consent law.
The provisions require that a woman be informed that “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” [...]
Case Status Update: Ohio Supreme Court Will Look at RU-486 Law
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008For the last several years, the State of Ohio has been in litigation defending its law requiring that physicians prescribing RU-486 abide by the FDA’s protocol when dispensing the drug. On June 23, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law should be evaluated by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Passed in 2004, the law [...]
