Abortion Notification Rules for Minors Dispute Arrives at Supreme Court

Missouri court clerk says she didn’t violate the girl’s rights by refusing to accept her parental bypass petition.

A county court clerk in Missouri is asking the Supreme Court to throw out an appeals court decision holding that a minor has a “clearly established” right to skip parental notification before asking a court to rule on whether she can have an abortion.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights think tank, the laws of 35 states prescribe a judicial bypass procedure in which a minor may obtain permission from a court for an abortion, but the rules from state to state vary widely.

The case is one of many now surfacing after the Supreme Court ruled this summer that there is no constitutional right to abortion.

The Supreme Court overturned the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling and returned the regulation of abortion to the states in its June 24 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the Dobbs decision, the high court also reversed a related 1992 precedent, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which affirmed Roe and declared that a woman had a right to obtain an abortion before fetal viability without undue interference from the state.

The case is Chapman v. Doe, court file 22-312…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)