BAIRD v. ATTORNEY GENERAL


371 Mass. 741 (1977)

360 N.E.2d 288

WILLIAM BAIRD & others vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 25, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Lucas of Washington, D.C. (Joan C. Schmidt with him) for the plaintiffs.

Charles P. Kindregan (Mary Laura Russell with him) for the defendant-intervener.

S. Stephen Rosenfeld, Assistant Attorney General (Garrick F. Cole & Margot Botsford, Assistant Attorneys General, with him) for the defendants.

Valerie Epps, Jeanne Baker, & Linda M. Scholle, for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Judith Mears for the American Civil Liberties Union, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & WILKINS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We have before us a series of questions, certified to us by the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, concerning various aspects of § 12P of G.L.c. 112, inserted by St. 1974, c. 706, § 1, a section which sets forth certain conditions for the performance of an abortion on an unmarried minor. These questions have been certified to us on the prompting of the Supreme Court of the United...

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