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E-Filed 2020 Jun 23 12:43 Pm Johnson - Clerk of District Court
E-FILED 2020 JUN 23 12:43 PM JOHNSON - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT EXHIBIT 4 E-FILED 2020 JUN 23 12:43 PM JOHNSON - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT IN THE IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR JOHNSON COUNTY PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND, INC., and DR. JILL MEADOWS. M.D., Petitioners, v. Case No. KIM REYNOLDS ex rel. STATE OF IOWA AFFIDAVIT OF DANIEL GROSSMAN, and IOWA BOARD OF MEDICINE, M.D. Respondents. 1. I am a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an obstetrician-gynecologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience. I currently provide clinical services, including abortion services, at San Francisco General Hospital. I am also a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), where I previously served as Vice Chair of the Committee on Practice Bulletins for Gynecology and as Chair of the ACOG Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. I am currently a member of ACOG’s Telehealth Working Group and ACOG’s Abortion Access and Training Expert Work Group. I am also a Fellow of the Society of Family Planning and a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Additionally, I serve as Director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UCSF. ANSIRH conducts innovative, rigorous, multidisciplinary research on complex issues related to people’s sexual and reproductive lives. I am also a Senior Advisor at Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit research organization. I am a liaison member of the Planned Parenthood National Medical Committee, and between 2012 and 2015, I provided clinical services with E-FILED 2020 JUN 23 12:43 PM JOHNSON - CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT Planned Parenthood Northern California (formerly Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific). -
ADVOCATES for YOUTH AS AMICUS CURIAE in SUPPORT of PETITIONERS ______Abbey J
No. 15-274 In the Supreme Court of the United States _________________________________________ WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH, ET AL., Petitioners, v. KIRK COLE, COMMISSIONER, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, ET AL., Respondents. _________________________________________ On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit _________________________________________ BRIEF OF ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS _________________________________________ Abbey J. Marr Christopher J. Wright Admitted only in New York Counsel of Record ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH Elizabeth Austin Bonner 2000 M Street N.W., Elizabeth B. Uzelac Suite 750 Admitted only in California Washington, DC 20036 1919 M Street N.W., (202) 419-3420 Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20036 (202) 730-1300 [email protected] JANUARY 4, 2016 i TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................ ii INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE ............................ 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT ............................................................... 3 ARGUMENT ............................................................... 6 I. A WIDE RANGE OF FACTORS INFORMS WHETHER A LEGAL RESTRICTION POSES A “SUBSTANTIAL OBSTACLE” FOR WOMEN WHO SEEK ACCESS TO ABORTION. ...................................................... 6 II. WOMEN NEED MEANINGFUL REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE TO DETERMINE THEIR OWN ROLES IN THE WORLD AND “PARTICIPATE EQUALLY IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE NATION.” ...................................................... -
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No. 19-1392 ================================================================================================================ In The Supreme Court of the United States --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- THOMAS E. DOBBS, STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, et al., Petitioners, v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, et al., Respondents. --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE FOUNDATION TO ABOLISH ABORTION, ABOLISH ABORTION TEXAS, ACTION FOR LIFE, FREE THE STATES, RESCUE THOSE, OPERATION SAVE AMERICA, END ABORTION NOW, COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE, AMERICAN RIGHT TO LIFE, ABOLISH ABORTION ARKANSAS, ABOLISH ABORTION IDAHO, ALASKA RIGHT TO LIFE, ABOLISH ABORTION PA, SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR ABOLISHING ABORTION, WEST TEXAS FOR LIFE, LIBERTY RISING INSTITUTE, SC RIGHT TO LIFE, ABOLISH ABORTION NORTH CAROLINA, LOVE LIFE, VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS, SCOTT HORD MINISTRIES, NUMEROUS OTHER AMERICANS FOR ABOLISHING ABORTION, AND 20 STATE LEGISLATORS, IN SUPPORT OF NEITHER PARTY --------------------------------- ♦ --------------------------------- BRADLEY W. P IERCE Counsel of Record FOUNDATION TO ABOLISH ABORTION P.O. Box 402 Liberty Hill, Texas 78642 Tel. (512) 598-1092 [email protected] Counsel for Amici Curiae ================================================================================================================ -
“Nearly Allied to Her Right to Be” —Medicaid Funding for Abortion
Women and the Law Stories Chapter 6 “Nearly Allied to Her Right to Be”—Medicaid Funding for Abortion: The Story of Harris v. McRae Rhonda Copelon and Sylvia A. Law I remember Tijuana . I think the thing I will always remember most vividly was walking up three flights of darkened stairs and down that pitchy corridor and knocking at the door at the end of it, not knowing what lie behind it, not knowing whether I would ever walk back down those stairs again. More than the incredible filth of the place, and my fear on seeing it that I would surely become infected; more than the fact that the man was an alcoholic, that he was drinking throughout the procedure, a whiskey glass in one hand, a sharp instrument in the other; more than the indescribable pain, the most intense pain I have ever been subject to; more than the humiliation of being told, “You can take your pants down now, but you shoulda’—ha! ha! —kept ‘em on before;” more than the degradation of being asked to perform a deviate sex act after he had aborted me (he offered me 20 of my 1000 bucks back for a “quick blow job”); more than the [hemorrhaging] and the peritonitis and the hospitalization that followed; more even than the gut-twisting fear of being “found out” and locked away for perhaps 20 years; more than all of these things, those pitchy stairs and that dank, dark hallway and the door at the end of it stay with me and chills my blood still.1 When several states legalized abortion and, subsequently, the Supreme Court transformed abortion from a crime to a right in 1973 in Roe v.