We are now more than 100 days out from the release of the Dobbs decision and the laws around reproductive rights remain in flux.
A federal judge in Texas heard arguments in a case seeking a temporary injunction against the enforcement of Texas’s various abortion laws. In addition, a state appeals court in Arizona reissued an injunction against the state’s pre-Roe criminal law and a state judge in Ohio issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Ohio’s fetal heartbeat law.
State legislatures also continue to grapple with these issues. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills designed to protect access to reproductive health services, including an expansive data protection law and a ban on employment discrimination based on the use of reproductive services. Legislators in South Carolina and Wisconsin convened for special sessions to consider abortion-related legislation, though neither led to concrete results.
California
California Governor Newsom signed a series of bills related to reproductive services on September 27, 2022.
The most significant is likely AB 1242, which prohibits California corporations that provide electronic communications services or remote computing services from cooperating with out-of-state entities investigating receipt of abortion services that are lawful in California. That includes turning over records that would reveal the identity of customers using the electronic communication or remote...
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