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The Supreme Court in the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt clarified what the 'undue burden' test requires: "Casey requires courts to consider the burdens a law imposes on abortion access together with the benefits those laws confer." [27] [28] The Supreme Court further clarified in the 2020 June Medical Services
The Commonwealth Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2021, citing a state Supreme Court case from 1985 that upheld the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act. The law dates to 1982 and bans abortion care ...
In 1982, Pennsylvania passed the Abortion Control Act, which imposed a 24-hour waiting period and required that prospective patients be provided with information (such as the probable stage of the patient's pregnancy, the availability of child welfare benefits, and the possibility of receiving child support from the patient's sexual partner) as part of the "informed consent" process prior to ...
Colautti v. Franklin, 439 U.S. 379 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court abortion rights case, which held void for vagueness part of Pennsylvania's 1974 Abortion Control Act. The section in question was the following:
Although the U.S. Supreme Court took away federal abortion rights in 2022, states can guarantee rights to their citizens beyond those set forth in the U.S. Constitution.
Abortion rights supporters stage a "die-in" protest in support of reproductive rights and emergency abortion care, on the day the Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments over the legality of ...
Number of abortion clinics in Pennsylvania by year. In 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state's Medicaid program was required to pay for abortion services for participating residents. The ruling stated that "once the government chooses to provide medical care for the indigent, including necessary care attendant to pregnancy ...
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 593 U.S. 522 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania violated First Amendment rights of a Catholic foster care agency by refusing to renew the agency's contract unless it agreed to certify married same-sex couples as foster parents.