Reproductive Justice

What Legal Voice is doing for Black History Month

For nearly 45 years, Legal Voice has been fighting in the courts and statehouses for our rights in the pursuit of gender equity and...

UPDATE: In a Win for Abortion Providers, Anti-Choice Harassers to Pay $850,000 in Legal Fees

For over two years, anti-abortion extremists held rallies directly outside of the Spokane Planned Parenthood Health Care Center. Calling...

Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban, Rules Against Bodily Autonomy in Planned Parenthood Case

Yesterday [January 5, 2023], the Idaho Supreme Court, in a 3-2 opinion, ruled against pregnant people by holding that the state’s extreme...

Legal Voice Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson and the overturn of Roe v. Wade

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned...

What Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Means for the Northwest

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that poses a direct...

Advanced Practice Clinicians in Alaska Can Now Provide Medication Abortion

In the midst of what can only be described as a travesty of justice for pregnant people in Texas, Legal Voice, together with Planned...

Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in 9 States

Legal Voice joined the Alliance: State Advocates for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality today in releasing a report, “Designed to Deceive:...

Indigenous People's Day is Not Just Today. It's a Daily Practice.

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay. However, the recognition of the leadership and resilience of Indigenous communities should be a practice...

The Courts Agree: PP deserves to treat patients without harassment from anti-abortion extremists

In June of 2020, Legal Voice and the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, filed a complaint on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Greater...

Challenging Idaho’s “Physician’s Only” Law

In December 2018, Legal Voice, along with Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, filed suit against...

Federal Court Rules Idaho’s “Pregnancy Exclusion” For Living Wills Is Unconstitutional

In a victory for pregnant people’s civil rights, a federal court in Boise held that Idaho law cannot require people capable of pregnancy...

Referendum 90 Approved by Washington Voters

Along with everything else that was taking place across the state of Washington this year, you may have voted on Referendum 90 in which...

Protesters Harassing Patients? Complaint Filed!

Patients seeking vital healthcare during a global health pandemic should not face continual harassment by armed, anti-abortion extremists...

Federal Judge Sides With Legal Voice in Idaho Suit for Pregnant People’s Rights

Every week, we hear about new attacks on abortion and pregnant people's right to access safe healthcare and self-determination over their...