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Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
476 U.S. 747
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
79 of 79
Citing cases (total)
523
Treatment dates
1992
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been overruled in part; the confirmed treatment is listed below. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey expressly overruled Thornburgh's informed-consent holding to the extent it invalidated requirements to provide truthful, nonmisleading information.
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Margaret S. v. Edwards described Thornburgh's pre-abortion context without holding its rule unavailable in a new one. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization later overruled Roe and Casey but mentioned Thornburgh only when recounting Casey's earlier overruling, so Dobbs supplies no separate direct treatment of Thornburgh. All 79 flagged citations have been read.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

523 later cases cite Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; 79 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in Part

  • The Supreme Court overruled Thornburgh to the extent it found a constitutional violation in requiring truthful, nonmisleading information about an abortion procedure, its and childbirth's health risks, and the fetus's probable gestational age.

    Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    To the extent Akron I and Thornburgh find a constitutional violation when the government requires, as it does here, the giving of truthful, nonmisleading information about the nature of the procedure, the attendant health risks and those of childbirth, and the “probable gestational age” of the fetus, those eases go too far, are inconsistent with Roe’s acknowledgment of an important interest in potential life, and are overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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