ABSTRACT
In 1991, the Supreme Court agreed to hear its most important abortion decision since Roe v. Wade. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey [Doc. 14] concerned a Pennsylvania law mandating that minors involve their parents and married women notify their husbands. Patients had to listen to an informed-consent script and wait 24 hours before terminating a pregnancy. In itself, there seemed to be nothing special about the Pennsylvania law. States had been passing similar statutes for decades. And there were much more extreme laws that the Court could have taken up, such as an outright ban, as introduced in Guam. But many knew that Casey was about much more. Right-to-lifers were asking the Court to reverse Roe.
