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- Title
The Supreme Court Upholds Parental Notice Requirements.
- Abstract
The article discusses information on court cases challenging the constitutionality of the state laws that require parents to be notified when their minor daughter is planning to have an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 1990, in two cases challenging the constitutionality of state laws that require parents to be notified when their minor daughter is planning to have an abortion. In Hodgson v. Minnesota, the Court held that while states may not impose a blanket two-parent notification requirement on minors seeking abortions, they may demand that both biological parents be notified so long as a judicial bypass is pro- vided for minors who do not want to inform their parents about their plans. In Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, the Court upheld a one-parent notification statute that included a judicial bypass, although it expressly refused to decide whether a state must provide a bypass option if it mandates notice to only one parent. The State of Ohio has acted with particular insensitivity in enacting the statute the Court today upholds. Rather than create a judicial-bypass system that reflects the sensitivity necessary when dealing with a minor making this deeply intimate decision, Ohio has created a tortuous maze. Moreover, the State has failed utterly to show that it has any significant state interest in deliberately placing its pattern of obstacles in the path of the pregnant minor seeking to exercise her constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ABORTION laws; APPELLATE courts; HUMAN reproduction; OBSTETRICS surgery; BIRTH control; CASE studies
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1990, Vol 22, Issue 4, p177
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article