Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health

The Court of Appeals held invalid an Ohio statute that, with certain exceptions, prohibits any person from performing an abortion on an unmarried, unemancipated, minor woman absent notice to one of the woman’s parents or a court order of approval. We reverse, for we determine that the statute accords with our precedents on parental notice and *507consent in the abortion context and does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The Ohio Legislature, in November 1985, enacted Amended Substitute House Bill 319 (H. B. 319), which amended Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2919.12 (1987), and created Ohio Rev. Code…