Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. State

OPINION

Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Alaska's medical emancipation statute historically allowed minors to consent to pregnancy-related health care subject to an express exception for pregnancy termination. In 2001 we held that under the Alaska Con*1128stitution's broad privacy guarantee a pregnant minor has the same fundamental privacy right to reproductive choice as an adult, and in 2007 we held that right cannot be conditioned on another's consent. The 2007 ruling allowed minors to obtain all pregnaan-cy-related health care-including pregnancy termination-without parental consent.

But in that 2007…