Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Protecting Incarcerated Women's Right to Abortion

RH Reality Check: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case Limiting Abortion Rights, by Amy Roth:

The Supreme Court opened its new term with some good news for women: it rejected an appeal from the state of Missouri, which had hoped for one more chance to defend its unconstitutional policy banning abortions for women in the prison system.

The case, Crawford v. Roe, originated in 2005, when a young woman refused to take no for an answer and eventually enlisted the ACLU in helping her to exercise her right to make her own reproductive decisions. "Jane Roe," as she is called in court documents, spent seven weeks trying to work with the prison system to obtain an abortion, something the prison had previously accommodated by bringing women to a clinic if they could afford to pay for an abortion with their own money. A change in the governor's office led to a change in that policy.

Here's the Eighth Circuit's decision.