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To: exDemMom
Do you you know on what basis these informed consent laws were struck down and what courts were involved? I would like to read the decisions and understand how they fabricated the unconstitutional basis.
46 posted on 01/20/2003 8:31:55 AM PST by Rockitz (Let us seek to change hearts. The law against abortion already exists!)
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To: Rockitz
Do you you know on what basis these informed consent laws were struck down and what courts were involved?

Please forgive me; the one I remember the most clearly was a case that came up when I was in high school, around 1975 or so. It was in New York state, a law mandating informed consent (I believe that its intent was to inform potential abortion clients about fetal development; pretty basic stuff). I'm fairly sure it was the SCOTUS that struck it down on the basis that either it "interferes with a woman's right to choose" or it "violates the right to privacy." Every once in a while, I hear or read about another similar law being stricken down, for about the same bogus reasons.

I am very sorry I do not have more concrete information; I do not keep newspaper articles on the subject and I am not a lawyer, so I wouldn't even know where to begin to conduct a legal database search on such a subject.

47 posted on 01/20/2003 8:51:00 PM PST by exDemMom (W in '04)
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