Legal Opinion
Bellotti v. Baird
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 1, 1976No. 75-73PublishedCited by 605 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
In this litigation, a three-judge District Court for the District of Massachusetts enjoined the operation of certain provisions of a 1974 Massachusetts statute that govern the type of consent required before an abortion may be performed on an unmarried woman under the age of 18. In so acting, the court denied by implication a motion by appellants that the court abstain from deciding the issue pending authoritative construction of the statute by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. We hold that the court should have abstained, and we vacate the judgment and remand the cases for…
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