Legal Opinion
State v. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided February 15, 2019No. 7334 S-16123PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNEY, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
We are again called upon to determine whether restrictions placed upon Alaska's Medicaid funding of abortions violate the Alaska Constitution. A 2014 statute and 2013 regulation re-define which abortions qualify as "medically necessary" for the purposes of Medicaid funding. The statute defines medically necessary abortions as those that "must be performed to avoid a threat of serious risk to the life or physical health of a woman from continuation of the woman's pregnancy" as a result of a number of listed medical conditions; the regulation is similarly…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Harris v. McRaeSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Rust v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Clark v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- United States v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by41 opinions
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- Native Village of Kwinhagak v. State of Alaska, DHSS, OCSAlaska Supreme Court · 2024
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