Planned Parenthood Case Summary

In the case of Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which was argued on April 22, 1992 and decided on June 29,1992, reviewed the various obligations and actions women along with young girls had to undergo in order to fully proceed an abortion. In the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, which was passed in 1898, required females to provide a type of consent in order to be taken in as a patient. According to the “Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation,” this meant that if the patient was a minor she must provide a written consent from at least one of the parents in which brought acknowledgment and approval with the minor’s decision in getting an abortion. The only way that a minor did not have to provide a consent for an abortion was if the judge decided that minor was capable enough to make decisions on her own. If the …show more content…
They had the right to get an abortion in Roe V. Wade, one case that was reviewed within the case, so why were they being restricted to in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey? Women providing a sort of consent before the procedure, were laws that forced an undue burden on a right that every woman should have and it was consider unconstitutional to not allow women to make their own decisions. By restricting women, the right to abort it was an invasion of their privacy. In the case the Fourteenth Amendment was brought up and quoted that because the fourteenth Amendment allowed individuals right women’s “life” and “liberty” was being restricted. In Roe V. Wade stated that, “protected a woman’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus; thus, government regulation of abortions must meet strict scrutiny in judicial review,” (Cornell University Law School; Roe v Wade) gave the state a factual view in the decisions of women and