Jane Doe No 1 v. Attorney General of Indiana (Indiana)

This case challenged a set of Indiana laws that require healthcare providers to bury or cremate embryonic and fetal tissue from an abortion or miscarriage procedure regardless of their patients’ wishes. Abortion patients must acquiesce to burial or cremation or dispose of infectious human tissue on their own, and at their own expense. In compelling patients and providers to act in accordance with the State’s view of personhood irrespective of their own religious and moral beliefs, the plaintiffs argued these laws violate the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment, and they should be permanently enjoined as unconstitutional.

Jane Doe No. 1; Jane Doe No. 3; William Mudd Martin Haskell, M.D.; Kelly McKinney, N.P.; and Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation

Attorney General of Indiana; Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health; The Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana; The Individual Members of the Indiana State Board of Nursing; and Marion County Prosecutor

Kathrine D. Jack; Michelle L Engel; Yale Law School Reproductive Rights and Justice Project

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, Ending the Case

Plaintiffs File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court

Plaintiffs File Petition for Rehearing En Banc

Seventh Circuit Summarily Reverses the District Court’s Judgment and Injunction

State Moves for a Stay of the Injunction

District Court Grants Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment

Plaintiffs File Motion for Summary Judgment

Plaintiffs File Complaint

Press Release: Abortion Patients and their Health Care Providers ask U.S. Supreme Court to Block Indiana Laws Requiring Burial or Cremation of Tissue from Abortion Procedures

Press Release: Indiana Requirements Forcing Burial or Cremation of Tissue From Abortions Permanently Blocked

Press Release: Patients Sue Indiana Over Requirement Forcing Burial or Cremation of Embryonic, Fetal Tissue