PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASS. v. BELLOTTI

No. 80-1580.

641 F.2d 1006 (1981)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS et al., Appellants, v. Francis X. BELLOTTI et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 9, 1981.

Rehearing Denied April 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Henn, Boston, Mass., with whom Sandra L. Lynch, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Stephen S. Ostrach, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Carl Valvo and Donald K. Stern, Asst. Attys. Gen., Government Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal puts in issue the constitutionality of a Massachusetts statute establishing three prerequisites to the performance of abortions: first, that a minor obtain parental or judicial approval prior to having an abortion; second, that any woman seeking an abortion sign a consent form prescribed by the state containing specified information about abortion; and third, that a woman wait twenty-four hours after signing that form before having...

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