Almost a dozen of Alliance Defending Freedom’s ongoing lawsuits contain abortion and contraceptive entry. Here’s a take a look at these circumstances.
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Alliance for Hippocratic Drugs v. U.S. Meals and Drug Administration.
ADF represents anti-abortion activist medical teams (three states have not too long ago filed motions to intervene within the case) and is asking the U.S. Supreme Courtroom to order the FDA to revoke its drug approval and subsequent selections across the abortion drug mifepristone. This drug has a confirmed security document for abortions and miscarriages, however based mostly on analysis that’s presently below investigation, ADF has argued the medicine is unsafe. Providing hypotheticals and anecdotes from anti-abortion medical doctors, ADF’s attorneys have additionally argued that medical doctors who oppose abortion may very well be pressured to offer emergency care to sufferers who took mifepristone, requiring them to take part in a drugs abortion.
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Idaho v. United States.
ADF is concerned in certainly one of two circumstances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom this time period that challenges the federal Emergency Medical Remedy and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires emergency medical suppliers to offer stabilizing medical therapy to sufferers which may outcome within the termination of their pregnancies. ADF and one other legislation agency requested the Supreme Courtroom in November to intervene in Idaho’s case and permit the state’s full abortion ban to enter impact, subjecting emergency room physicians to legal penalties below the legislation. ADF attorneys contend that physicians who’re anti-abortion may very well be pressured to take part in abortions that go in opposition to their non secular beliefs, although Idaho healthcare professionals haven’t publicly expressed concern over that risk.
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Texas v. Xavier Becerra.
The case challenges EMTALA on behalf of Texas, presently into consideration on the fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals. ADF, which represents the state, argues that requiring emergency rooms to deal with being pregnant emergencies will “flip ERs into abortion services.”
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Paul Isaacson v. Kristin Mayes.
This case includes a 2021 Arizona legislation that banned being pregnant termination if the explanation was due to a poor fetal well being prognosis. The legislation is presently in impact after it was blocked after which revived as soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, although abortion in all different situations stays authorized by means of 15 weeks’ gestation. Arizona Democratic Legal professional Normal Kris Mayes has vowed to not defend or implement the legislation; nevertheless, medical doctors have mentioned they’ve been refusing to terminate pregnancies which may not be viable or that would lead to extreme disabilities. ADF is representing state Republican leaders to defend what the legislation agency has framed as a case to “defend Arizona infants from eugenic practices.”
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Andrea Anderson v. Aitkin Pharmacy Providers, LLC.
ADF is representing Minnesota pharmacist George Badeaux, whom Andrea Anderson sued in 2019 after he refused to promote her emergency contraception due to his non secular beliefs. Final 12 months a jury discovered that Badeaux didn’t discriminate in opposition to Anderson, however her attorneys have appealed to the Minnesota Courtroom of Appeals.
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Paige Casey v. MinuteClinic Diagnostic of Virginia, LLC.
ADF represented a nurse practitioner in Virginia who final 12 months sued CVS Well being, the guardian firm of MinuteClinic, which she mentioned fired her for refusing to dispense sure contraceptives, which ADF falsely known as abortifacients. The case was settled out of courtroom in October, in response to on-line courtroom data.
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Texas and Mayo Pharmacy v. U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers.
ADF is representing Mayo Pharmacy, an impartial pharmacy and Catholic present store in Bismarck, North Dakota, in its joint lawsuit in opposition to a federal well being coverage that requires pharmacies that serve Medicaid and Medicare sufferers to inventory and dispense abortion medicine. ADF says the clinic is suing as a result of the pharmacy mandate conflicts with the proprietor’s non secular beliefs.
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Cedar Park Meeting of God of Kirkland v. Myron Kreidler.
ADF is dealing with a church’s enchantment to the ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals in a case involving a 2018 Washington state legislation that requires most Washington employers to supply abortion protection for workers.
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Nationwide Institute of Household and Life Advocates v. Charity Clark.
ADF is representing a nationwide community of anti-abortion facilities and two Vermont facilities in a lawsuit in opposition to a state legislation that prohibits deceptive promoting.
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NIFLA v. Mario Treto Jr.
Anti-abortion being pregnant facilities in Illinois are difficult a 2016 state legislation that stipulates that if a well being care supplier refuses to supply care due to a conscience-based objection, they nonetheless have to supply sufferers with info to entry the care elsewhere.
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Obria Group Inc. v. Robert Ferguson.
The lawyer basic in Washington state not too long ago opened an investigation into the Obria Group, a nationwide community of being pregnant facilities, over potential state violations associated to how the facilities talk medical info and deal with affected person information. ADF is representing the Obria Group in a lawsuit claiming the investigation is politically motivated and based mostly on bias in opposition to the group’s anti-abortion beliefs.
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