Eve C. Gartner
Eve C. Gartner is deputy director of the Public Policy Litigation and Law Department of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), where she challenges attempts to restrict access to reproductive health care, advises Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country about the legal issues raised by such attempts, and assists those affiliates in designing proactive legislative and public advocacy strategies to improve access to women's health services.
Prior to joining PPFA in May 1997, Ms. Gartner served for four years as a senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, where she also specialized in litigation and public advocacy in support of reproductive rights.
In the 15 years that Ms. Gartner has worked in this field, she has been involved in several key reproductive rights cases. She most recently served as lead counsel in Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a challenge to the federal abortion ban that is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Other notable cases include
- Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co., the first case to establish that a private employer's failure to provide insurance coverage for prescription contraception constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware v. Brady, a successful challenge to Delaware's law that would have required a mandatory 24-hour delay before performing any abortion, even in a medical emergency
- a series of cases challenging state Medicaid programs that refused to cover abortions for poor women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest
- Amelia E. v. NY DOH, the first legal challenge to a hospital merger between sectarian and non-sectarian hospitals that would have resulted in the elimination of family planning services
- Jane L. v. Bangerter, a challenge to a 1991 Utah law that sought to challenge Roe v. Wade directly by banning virtually all abortions in that state
Ms. Gartner is a 1988 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, research and writing editor of the Human Rights Law Review, and published "Exporting Unapproved Drugs: An Examination of the Drug Export Amendment Acts of 1986," Vol. 19 No. 1 Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 97-121 (Fall 1987). Immediately after law school, Ms. Gartner clerked for Chief Judge Truman Hobbs of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
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