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HODGSON v. LAWSON

No. 74-1569.

542 F.2d 1350 (1976)

Jane E. HODGSON, M.D., et al., Appellees, v. Warren LAWSON, Commissioner of Health of the State Department of Health and Executive Secretary of the State Board of Health; and Warren Spannaus, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Sipkins, St. Paul, Minn., for appellants; Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Peter W. Sipkins, Sol. Gen. and Thomas H. Jensen, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., on brief.

Roy Lucas, Washington, D.C., for appellees; Maynard E. Pirsig and Gary B. Crawford, Minneapolis, Minn., on brief.

Randall D. B. Tigue, Legal Counsel, Minn. Civil Liberties Union, Minneapolis, Minn., for amicus curiae, Minn. Civil Liberties Union.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal concerns the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Minnesota abortion law, Minn.Stat. §§ 145.411-145.416 (1974), and the regulations promulgated thereunder by the Minnesota State Board of Health. On March 21, 1974, the Minnesota abortion law, passed in response to the decisions of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973) and Doe v. Bolton...

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