Privacy - Court invokes right of "marital privacy" to strike down law banning contraceptives from married people
Health Exception - Court says "health" exception in abortion law is not vague and includes psychological well-being
Privacy - Court rules that law limiting contraceptives to married people is discriminatory and violates “right to privacy” of unmarried people
Right to Abortion - Court announces right to abortion under the U.S. Constitution
Health Exception - Court creates broad “health” exception for abortions after viability
Abortion Advertisement - Court rules that First Amendment protects abortion advertisements
Abortion Doctors - Court concludes that Roe does not protect the right of non-physicians to perform abortions
Abortion Regulation - Court invalidates spousal and parental consent, saline abortion limitation, and duty of care to save the baby, but upholds viability definition and informed consent
Parental Consent - Court rules that the interpretation of a state parental consent law should be made by a state court first
Abortion Doctors - Court gives abortion doctors standing to file suit against abortion regulations
Abortion Funding - Court rules Social Security Act does not require funding of “nontherapeutic” abortions
Abortion Funding - Court rules that failure to fund abortion is not a restriction on the abortion right and says states may favor childbirth over abortion through funding allocations
Abortion Regulation - Court upholds city policy prohibiting abortions in city-owned hospitals
Abortion Doctors - Court invalidates law requiring abortion doctors to use safest procedure for babies when performing post-viability abortions
Parental Consent - Court creates “judicial bypass” standard for parental consent laws
Abortion Funding - Court rules that states may limit Medicaid payments to life-saving abortions
Abortion Funding - Court upholds Hyde Amendment limiting federal abortion funding to life-saving abortions
Parental Notice - Court upholds parental notice provision in case of immature minor
Abortion Doctors - Court gives abortion doctors standing to file suit against abortion regulations
Abortion Regulation - Court invalidates second-trimester hospital requirement but upholds pathology report, second doctor at post-viability abortions, and parental consent or judicial waiver
Abortion Regulation - Court upholds law requiring that second-trimester abortions be done in licensed facilities
Abortion Regulation - Court invalidates informed consent, reporting, and post-viability regulations
Abortion Funding - Court rules state funding of abortion is not required and upholds “life begins at conception” preamble
Parental Notice - Court rules that two-parent notification for a minor’s abortion is constitutional as long as judicial bypass is available
Parental Notice - Court upholds one-parent notice requirement with judicial bypass but leaves open question of whether bypass is required
Abortion Funding - Court upholds restriction on use of federal funds for abortion counseling, referral, and advocacy
Abortion Regulation - Court reaffirms Roe v. Wade, establishes new “undue burden” standard of review, and overturns spousal notification
Abortion Protest - Court rules Ku Klux Klan Act cannot be used against pro-life clinic demonstrations
Abortion Protest - Court rules racketeering law can be used against pro-life demonstrators despite lack of economic motive
Abortion Protest - Court establishes test for review of pro-life clinic demonstration injunctions; finds portions of injunction unconstitutional
Abortion Funding - Court rules that state restriction on Medicare funding for abortion should be consistent with federal law
Abortion Regulation - Court allows restrictions on abortions past 20 weeks to stand despite invalidity of restrictions on earlier abortions
Abortion Protest - Court strikes down “floating buffer zone” in clinic demonstration injunction
Abortion Doctors - Court upholds law requiring abortions to be done by licensed physicians
Abortion Protest - Court upholds 8-foot “no approach” zone for protestors within 100 feet of abortion clinics
Partial-Birth Abortion - Court strikes down state law restricting partial-birth abortion
Abortion Protest - See Scheidler v. NOW 2006
Parental Notice - Court refuses to strike down parental notice law on its face where only a few applications of the law present a constitutional problem
Abortion Protest - Court rules that pro-life protestors do not violate RICO extortion law
Partial-Birth Abortion - Court upholds federal law restricting partial-birth abortion