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"Parental notification measure might be bulletproof in the courts"

"Parental notification measure might be bulletproof in the courts": Yesterday in The San Jose Mercury News, Howard Mintz had an article that begins, "For more than a decade, abortion foes have been trying to erase a bitterly divided California Supreme Court decision that struck down a law requiring minors to get parental consent for abortions. Now, if voters approve Proposition 4 in next month's election, that 1997 ruling will become nothing more than a footnote in the law books. A new parental notification law in California may well be insulated against another legal challenge, given what has unfolded in other states that have passed similar laws and the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on the issue. In short, if opponents of parental consent laws want to win, it appears likely they will have to win at the ballot box, not in the courts."

Full post as published by How Appealing on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).