In Abortion Case, One Side Had Far More Women Lawyers

By Melissa Heelan Stanzione, Bloomberg BNA

The number of women attorneys supporting the abortion provider that challenged Texas abortion regulations at the U.S. Supreme Court — and won — vastly outnumbered female attorneys on the other side.

In the case, the Supreme Court on June 27 struck down parts of a Texas law regulating abortions, which it held unduly burden a woman’s constitutional right to abortion inWhole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, No. 15–274.

Bloomberg BNA analysed the roughly 80 briefs, including amicus briefs, filed by both sides in the case.

Of the 200 attorneys representing the petitioners, Whole Woman’s Health, and ...