PARKER v. RAMPTON

No. 12494.

497 P.2d 848 (1972)

28 Utah 2d 36

Susan H. PARKER et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. Honorable Calvin L. RAMPTON, Governor of the State of Utah, and Honorable Vernon B. Romney, Attorney General of the State of Utah, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of Utah.

May 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon B. Romney, Atty. Gen., G. Blaine Davis, Verl R. Topham, Asst. Attys. Gen., Salt Lake City, for defendants and appellants.

David S. Dolowitz, Salt Lake County Bar Legal Services, Salt Lake City, for plaintiffs and respondents.


CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiffs allege: that each is the parent of two children; that each has sought sterilization from their physicians, who have refused because of forebodings as to the effect of Sec. 64-10-12, U.C.A. 1953. They seek an adjudication declaring that this section does not apply to them, but prohibits sterilization only as to persons whom we refer to herein as the "class of defectives." The subject is dealt with in Chapter 10, Title 64, U.C.A. 1953,...

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