PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREAT NW v. ALASKA

Supreme Court Nos. S-15010/15030/15039 (Consolidated).

375 P.3d 1122 (2016)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF The GREAT NORTHWEST, Jan Whitefield, M.D., and Susan Lemagie, M.D., Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. STATE of Alaska, Loren Leman, Mia Costello, and Kim Hummer-Minnery, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 22, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Orlansky , Feldman Orlansky & Sanders, and Thomas Stenson , ACLU of Alaska Foundation, Anchorage, Janet Crepps, Center for Reproductive Rights, Simpsonville, South Carolina, Talcott Camp and Andrew Beck, ACLU Foundation, and Diana O. Salgado, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, New York, and Laura F. Einstein, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Seattle, Washington, for Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Margaret Paton Walsh and Dario Borghesan , Assistant Attorneys General, Anchorage, and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General, Juneau for Appellee/Cross-Appellant State of Alaska.

Kevin G. Clarkson and Matthew C. Clarkson , Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C., Anchorage for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Loren Leman, Mia Costello, and Kim Hummer-Minnery.

Allison Mendel , Mendel & Associates, Inc., Anchorage, and Lourdes M. Rosado , Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae Juvenile Law Center, Legal Voice, and National Center for Youth Law. Kimberly A. Parker and Joshua S. Press , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, National Association of Social Workers, Alaska Chapter, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and American Psychiatric Association.

Christina Passard , The Law Office of Christina M. Passard, P.C., Anchorage, and Mailee R. Smith , Americans United for Life, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Alaska Family Action.

Mario Bird , Ross & Minor, P.C., Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Alaskan Doctors for Parental Notice.

Before: Fabe, Chief Justice, Winfree, Stowers, Maassen, and Bolger, Justices.


OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

Alaska's medical emancipation statute historically allowed minors to consent to pregnancy-related health care subject to an express exception for pregnancy termination. In 2001 we held that under the Alaska Constitution's broad privacy guarantee...

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