In the past two years, anti-abortion groups have seeded state laws with abortion restrictions. Challengers to court rulings for and against those laws now are knocking on the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The justices on Nov. 4 dismissed Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, Oklahoma’s attempt to resurrect its limits on medical abortions. However, litigators on opposite sides of the abortion controversy agree the Cline case is unlikely to be the last time the high court confronts that issue.