Mr. Cassidy is also involved in an Illinois case in which his client alleges that Planned Parenthood of the Chicago Area deceived women seeking to undergo abortions.
Virginia's governor and legislature get caught up in an emotional debate over requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound.
Limits on the legal right to abortion are sweeping through legislatures across the United States, from moves to require women seeking abortion to undergo intrusive ultrasounds, to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, America's largest family planning provider.
Since being elected governor in 2011, Walker has signed off on legislation requiring women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasounds, prohibiting the procedure from being covered by healthcare plans and defunding Planned Parenthood.
An Oklahoma law requiring women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasound exams and doctors to show and describe the images to the women has also been struck down: opponents argued it was unconstitutional because it applied only to abortions and not to other procedures.
Meanwhile, Republican legislators in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Alabama have pushed bills requiring women seeking abortions to undergo invasive vaginal ultrasound tests.
Indiana requires all women seeking abortions to undergo private, in-person, state-directed counseling and then wait 18 hours before they can have the procedure.
Against all medical evidence and advice, states are forcing women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasounds, wait 72 hours, and/or travel to distant hospitals.
South Dakota passed a law requiring women seeking abortions to undergo anti-choice "counseling" and wait 72 hours before having the procedure.
The Virginia House just passed a bill that would require women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound without their consent, and another that would put access to birth control at risk.
