January 1999

Cases Finding That State Constitutions Require Funding:

New Mexico Right to Choose/NARAL v. Johnson, No. 23239, 1998 WL 959993 (NM Nov. 25, 1998)

Women of Minn. v. Gomez, 542 N.W. 2d 17, 32 (Minn. 1995)

Women’s Health Center of W. VA, Inc v. Panepino, 446 S. E. 2d 658, 667 ( W. Va 1993)

Doe v. Maher, 515 A. 2d 134, 162 (Conn. Super. Ct. 1986)

Right to Choose v. Byrne, 450 A. 2d 925, 941 (NJ 1982)

Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers, 625 P. 2d 779, 798-99 (Cal. 1981)

Moe v. Secretary of Admin. and Fin. 417 N.E. 2d 387, 404 (Mass 1981)

See Also

Roe v. Harris, 917 P. 2d 403, 407 (Idaho 1996) (court expressing disapproval of an agency rule restricting state funding for abortions in an opinion holding that a trial court abused its discretion in denying an award of attorney fees to plaintiffs who prevailed in their challenge to such restrictions)

Planned Parenthood Ass’n Inc., v. Dep’t of Human Resources, 687 P. 2d 785, 792-93 (Or. 1984) (finding that a state agency exceeded its statutory authority in restricting state funding for abortions)

Cases Finding That State Constitutions Do Not Require Funding:

Rosie J. v. North Carolina Dep’t of Human Resources, 491 S.E. 2d 535, 538 (N.C. 1997)

Hope v. Perales, 634 N.E. 2d 183, 188 (N.Y. 1994)

Doe v. Department of Social Servs., 487 N.W. 2d 166, 179-80 (Mich 1992)

Fischer v. Department of Pub. Welfare, 502 A. 2d 114, 126 (Pa. 1985)