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VALLEY HOSP. ASS'N v. MAT-SU COALITION

No. S-7417.

948 P.2d 963 (1997)

VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC., and James G. Walsh, Valley Hospital Executive Director, Appellants, v. MAT-SU COALITION FOR CHOICE, Dr. Susan Lemagie, and Jane Does I-X, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Brundin, Brundin, Inc., Anchorage, and James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for Appellants.

Stephan H. Williams, Cooperating Attorney for the Alaska Civil Liberties Union, Anchorage, and Janet L. Crepps and Kathryn Kolbert, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York, NY, for Appellees.

Susan Wright Mason, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Anchorage, for Amicus Curiae Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association.

Paul Benjamin Linton, Americans United for Life, Chicago, IL, and Kenneth P. Jacobus, Kenneth P. Jacobus, P.C., Anchorage, for Amici Curiae Members of the Alaska Legislature.

Jeffrey M. Feldman and Susan Orlansky, Young, Sanders & Feldman, Anchorage, for Amici Curiae American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Medical Women's Association, Inc.

Before COMPTON, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and EASTAUGH, JJ.

OPINION

COMPTON, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Valley Hospital Association (VHA) seeks to reverse the superior court's summary judgment declaring unenforceable and permanently enjoining enforcement of its policy limiting abortion. We affirm the superior court. We hold that (1) Article I, section 22 of the Alaska Constitution encompasses reproductive rights, including abortion; (2) VHA is...

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