The Supreme Court on March 20 vacated a 2018 appeals court ruling that an underage Missouri teenager had a right to seek an abortion without notifying her parents.
Only one justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. Jackson, whom President Biden nominated last year to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, wrote in her four-page dissent that her colleagues effectively erased the appeals court decision from the books, preventing lawyers from citing it as a binding legal precedent in future cases.
Before Missouri’s abortion ban took effect following the high court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June, Missouri law required minors to secure written parental consent before obtaining an abortion.
Currently, 36 states require parental notification of one or both parents before a dependent minor can have an abortion, including 21 states that demand at least one parent’s consent. Still, 35 of those states provide for a judicial bypass, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher […]
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