On August 5, 1997, the court voted, 4-3, to overturn the previous court's April 4 decision, and declared the state parental consent law unconstitutional. In the majority were Chief Justice Ron George, and Justices Kathryn Werdegar, Ming Chin, and Joyce Kennard; in the minority were Justices Stanley Mosk, Marvin Baxter and Janice Brown. Chief Justice George wrote in an opinion shared by Justices Werdegar and Chin that the parental consent law could not pass the strict scrutiny required by "the state constitutional privacy clause," and so parental consent "intrudes significantly on a privacy interest that past California decisions have identified as 'clearly among the most intimate and fundamental of all constitutional rights'" (quoting Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers, a 1981 abortion funding case.) Justice Janice Brown wrote that for the majority to have reached their conclusion, they must have ignored "the historic limits of the federal Constitution," have rewritten "the privacy provision of the state Constitution," and have abrogated "the constitutional interests of parents in an opinion that cannot survive any level of scrutiny, much less strict scrutiny."
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