Foster v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prisons must expend funds to accommodate prisoners' rights to choose abortions, just as they must expend funds to facilitate the meaningful exercise of the fundamental rights to access to the courts or free exercise of religion
• holding that prisons must expend funds to accommodate prisoners’ rights to choose abortions, just as they must expend funds to facilitate the meaningful exercise of the fundamental rights to access to the courts or free exercise of religion
• stating that “deliberate indifference is demonstrated when prison authorities prevent an inmate from receiving recommended treatment for serious medical needs”
• stating that accommodation for abortion services imposes no greater burden on the government than already exists under its responsibility to provide proper pre- and post-natal care to pregnant inmates
• finding medical needs may be deemed serious if the denial or delay potentially would result in serious injury, long term harm or permanent disability
• \courts have been reluctant to consider costs to the institution as a major factor in determining whether a constitutional violation exist[s] \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).