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The Alaska Supreme Court has struck down<\/a> the state’s 2010 law requiring minors seeking abortions to notify at least one parent first.<\/p>\n

Justice Daniel Winfree’s majority opinion claimed the law violated the Alaska Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection. Justice Dana Fabe wrote a concurring opinion claiming to believe parental notification requirements are theoretically permissible, but that this law’s judicial bypass provision was so burdensome that it violated the “right to privacy.”<\/p>\n

“While we all want what’s best for teens,”\u00a0Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii’s Alaska Public Affairs Manager, Jessica Cler, argued<\/a>, “unfortunately some teens live in dangerous homes and they can’t involve a parent, and this law put some of the most vulnerable teens at risk and prevented them from accessing the care that they need.”<\/p>\n

However, the lone dissenting vote, Justice Craig Stowers, blasted the decision as “trivializ[ing] and” effectively renders useless the right of parents to have any involvement in an action that will have tremendous impact on their daughters.<\/p>\n

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The court’s decision empowering teenagers to get abortions without their parents’ knowledge creates a double-standard in Alaska law, which requires<\/a> parental consent in order for schools to administer aspirin and forbids minors to get tattoos even with parental consent.<\/p>\n

In 1990’s Hodgson v. Minnesota<\/em>, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could require parental notification for abortion, so long as it included a judicial bypass provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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