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PA: Teen ?rights? to abortion in dispute

By ADF Alliance Alert

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Mr. Wenger, along with Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, sought a redacted version of the case file so they could prepare their Supreme Court brief, but the request was denied. Still, they maintain that Judge Ignelzi considered all the facts and made an informed decision. "Whatever went into the judge's decision, we can be sure it was a weighing of testimony and facts about the maturity, health and safety of letting the minor undergo a secret abortion without her parents' knowledge," said Mr. Bowman, "and the law of Pennsylvania defers to the judge who decides to protect her by involving her parent."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).