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US Supreme Court to review abortion gag rule, rejects election challenge

February 23, 2021

Via: Jurist
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The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in cases ranging from reproductive healthcare funding to the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 and also rejected a challenge to the 2020 election.

The court granted review of three cases that it consolidated: American Medical Association v. Cochran, Cochran v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and Oregon v. Cochran. The cases will decide whether the Trump administration’s “gag rule,” which prevented healthcare providers receiving federal dollars from performing abortions and providing abortion counseling, is arbitrary and capricious.

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