Bell v. Low Income Women of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the federal analytical approach applies to equal protection challenges under the Texas Constitution,” so resolution of federal equal protection claim will also resolve State equal protection claim
• explaining that the Equal Rights Amendment to the Texas Constitution was “designed expressly to provide protection which supplements the federal guarantees of equal treatment” and specifies “sex, race, color, creed, or national origin” as protected classes
• habeas court must determine whether law is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest
• “The classification here is not so much directed at women as a class as it is abortion as a medical treatment, which, because it involves a potential life, has no parallel as a treatment method.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).