Bellotti v. Baird (1976)
Bellotti v. Baird | |||||||
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Argued March 23, 1976 Decided July 1, 1976 | |||||||
Full case name | Bellotti, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. v. Baird, et al. | ||||||
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96 S. Ct. 2857; 49 L. Ed. 2d 844; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 81 | ||||||
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Massachusetts law requiring parental consent was constitutional. | |||||||
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Majority | Blackmun, joined by unanimous |
Bellotti v. Baird, 428 U.S. 132 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a Massachusetts law requiring parental consent to a minor's abortion, which provided that "if one or both of the [minor]'s parents refuse ... consent, consent may be obtained by order of a judge ... for good cause shown."[1] The decision was unanimous, and the opinion of the Court was written by Justice Blackmun. The law in question "permits a minor capable of giving informed consent to obtain a court order allowing abortion without parental consultation, and further permits even a minor incapable of giving informed consent to obtain an abortion order without parental consultation where it is shown that abortion would be in her best interests."[1]
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