Maryann MAHAFFEY, Ethelene Crockett Jones, M.D., Mark Evans, M.D., and Charles Vincent, M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
ATTORNEY GENERAL, Defendant-Appellant, and
Vernice Davis Anthony, Harold J. Sauer, M.D., and Richard E. Griffin, Defendants.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted May 9, 1996, at Detroit.
Decided March 14, 1997, at 9:35 a.m.
Released for Publication May 22, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan by Paul J. Denenfeld and Corinne B. Yates, Detroit, Elizabeth Gleicher, Detroit, for plaintiffs.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, R. John Wernet, Jr., Lansing, for the Attorney General.
Joseph P. Zanglin and Americans United for Life, Detroit, by Paul B. Linton and Clarke D. Forsythe, Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae Michigan State Senators R. Robert Geake, Mat Dunaskiss, Doug Carl, David Honigman, Philip Hoffman, John Schwarz, Paul Wartner, William VanRegenmorter, Gilbert Dinello, Dick Posthumus, Glenn Steil, Phil Arthurhultz, and George McManus, and Michigan State Representatives Timothy Walberg, Michael Griffin, Clyde LeTarte, Dan Gustafson, Walter DeLange, Harold Voorhees, Clark Harder, Alan Cropsey, Paul Hillegonds, Jessie Dalman, Paul Baade, Jim McBryde, and Michelle McManus.
The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy by Eve Gartner, Priscilla Smith, and Kathryn Kolbert, New York City, Shelly Spivack and Linda Pylypiw, Flint, and Planned Parenthood by Lore Rogers, Ann Arbor, for Amici Curiae Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc., Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc.-West, Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc.-East, Summit Medical Center, Feminine Health Care Clinic, P.C., Womancare of Downriver, P.C., Womancare of Livonia, P.C., Womancare of Macomb, P.C., Womancare of Southfield, P.C., Womancare of Lansing, P.C., Womancare of Northland, P.C., Michiana Abortion Clinic, P.C., Heritage Clinic for Woman, Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan, Planned Parenthood League-Sanger Center, Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan, Louis Twigg, M.D., Victor Shay, M.D., Chin-Shuh Chen, M.D., Michael A. Roth, M.D., Planned Parenthood Association of Southwestern Michigan, Planned Parenthood of East Central Michigan, Planned Parenthood Centers of West Michigan, Marquette-Alger Planned Parenthood, Inc., Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association, Inc., National Organization for Women, Michigan Chapter, and Michigan Abortion Rights Action League.
Before REILLY, P.J., and MARK J. CAVANAGH and R.C. ANDERSON, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.
PER CURIAM.
In this case we are required to decide whether 1993 P.A. 133,1 commonly known as the "informed consent law," violates the Michigan Constitution. The trial court held that the Michigan Constitution guarantees a right to abortion that is separate and distinct from the federal constitutional right to abortion. The trial court then held that the informed consent law violates the state...
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