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COMMONWEALTH v. PAGE

451 Pa. 331 (1973)

Commonwealth, Appellant, v. Page. Commonwealth v. King, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 29, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Brown, Jr., District Attorney, with him Richard Campbell, Assistant District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellant (Appeal No. 95).

Francis A. Searer, for appellee.

Joseph G. Skelly, with him William B. Ball, and Ball & Skelly, for amicus curiae, guardians ad litem.

John J. Dean, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Carol Mary Los, Assistant District Attorney, with her Robert W. Duggan, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee (Appeal No. 163).

Marjorie Hanson Matson and Stanton D. Levenson, for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, March 29, 1973:

We have consolidated these two appeals because both involve the constitutionality of our criminal statutes proscribing abortions.1

On October 21, 1968, Barry Page, a motorcycle mechanic with medical training as a Merchant Marine corpsman, pled guilty to the performance of two abortions.2 Page's guilty plea resulted in his conviction and

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