IN RE JANE DOE

No. 2560 July term, 1987.

45 Pa. D. & C. 3d 371 (1987)

In re Jane Doe

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

August 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Zack, for Jane Doe.

Brian M. Peters, for hospital and attending physician.

Neal D. Colton, for attending physician.


LEHRER, J., August 19, 1987.

This court will enter a declaratory judgment pursuant to the Declaratory Judgments Act. Pa.C.S. §§7531-7541 (Purdon, 1978).

The issue before it is justiciable. It involves balancing the common law and constitutional right to self-determination and privacy against the interest of the state in the preservation of life. All necessary and indispensable parties have been and are named of record.

The issue arose...

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