Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
July 11, 2023 This groundbreaking lawsuit against the State of Idaho, alleges that the recently passed the ‘Abortion Travel Ban’, §18-623, offends both the First Amendment and the right to travel within and between states. Legal Voice vs. the State...
Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
View PDF Legal Voice Founded in 1978 in Seattle, Washington, Legal Voice is a nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization fighting for social justice and gender liberation in the Pacific Northwest. We challenge patriarchal and racist power structures to widen...
May 5, 2023 | Reproductive Justice, Uncategorized
Yesterday, Legal Voice, along with Perkins Coie, filed an amicus brief in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. FDA, in support of the FDA’s appeal to the Fifth Circuit, to ensure access to mifepristone–an essential health care option for people seeking abortion....
Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
You may have noticed some new names and faces these last couple of months! Take a moment to get to know our new staff members, and help us welcome them to the team. Wendy Heipt is a legal advocate with a background in international human rights law. A first-generation...
Apr 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
This past week, we filed an amicus brief in support of Planned Parenthood of Montana in a lawsuit challenging four harmful laws that together would: Ban abortion after twenty weeks; Prohibit state health insurance plans sold through the federal exchange from including...
Feb 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
(Boise, Idaho – Feb. 3, 2022) Four Idaho women secured a landmark victory this week, settling a federal lawsuit challenging an Idaho law that voided the living wills – also known as advance directives – of all pregnant people. Idaho is not the only state that...
