Williams v. Zbaraz

This suit was brought as a class action under 42 U. S. C. i 1983 in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to enjoin the enforcement of an Illinois statute that prohibits state medical assistance payments for all abortions except those “necessary for the preservation of the life of the woman seeking such treatment.” The plaintiffs were two physicians who perform medically necessary abortions for indigent women, a welfare rights organization, and Jane Doe, an indigent pregnant woman who alleged that she desired an abortion that was medically necessary, but not necessary to…