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Jun 22, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court's 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey reaffirmed a woman's right to an abortion as granted in the 1973 Roe v. Wade...
Jun 14, 2024 · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, legal case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992, that redefined several provisions regarding abortion rights as established in Roe v. Wade (1973). Both Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade were overturned by the Court in 2022.
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey is the Supreme Court case that had reaffirmed the decision of Roe v. Wade (1973) prohibiting states from disallowing abortion prior to viability.
Brief Fact Summary. Section 3209 of Pennsylvania’s abortion law provides that no physician shall perform an abortion on a married woman without receiving a signed statement from the woman that she has notified her spouse that she is about to undergo an abortion.
5–4 decision for Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Relying on a new "undue burden" standard to assess abortion restrictions, a deeply divided bench upheld all but one of several Pennsylvania restrictions. White.
In the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the authors of the plurality opinion abandoned Roe's strict trimester framework but maintained its central holding that women have a right to have an abortion before viability.
Primary Holding. A person retains the right to have an abortion, established by Roe v. Wade, but the state’s compelling interest in protecting the life of an unborn child means that it can ban an abortion of a viable fetus under any circumstances except when the health of the mother is at risk.
Jun 24, 2022 · In Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, the Supreme Court affirmed what it called the central holding of Roe v. Wade: that states may not prohibit abortions before fetal viability, the...
Jan 13, 2009 · Casey (1992) began on 22 April 1992 with Kathryn Kolbert representing Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania. Kolbert argued that the provisions in the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 violated the decision made in Roe v. Wade that the right to an abortion was fundamental.
Jun 29, 1992 · Our prior decisions establish that as with any medical procedure, the State may require a woman to give her written informed consent to an abortion. See Planned Parenthood of Central Mo. v. Danforth, 428 U. S., at 67. In this respect, the statute is unexceptional.
