Who challenged the federal ban?
When Congress passed and President Bush signed the ban into law in the fall of 2003, three legal challenges were immediately filed. • The National Abortion Federation and seven individual physicians, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, the ACLU of Illinois, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a legal challenge to the federal ban in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. (National Abortion Federation v. Gonzales) • Dr. LeRoy Carhart and three other physicians, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a legal challenge to the federal ban in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska. (Gonzales v. Carhart) • On behalf of its affiliates throughout the country, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood of Golden Gate filed a legal challenge to the federal ban in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. (Gonzales v. Planned Parent
