ST. PETERSBURG, July 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Florida’s 48-hour parental notification law has been quashed by the state Supreme Court, on grounds that it violates the privacy rights of teenage girls. The court ruled 5-1 to strike down the 1999 law, which never came into effect because it has been hamstrung by legal challenges from feminists who support abortion. Justice Leander Shaw wrote for the majority, “We recognize that the legal issue of abortion has been one of the most gut-wrenching, emotionally laden issues of the past decades in Florida. Sitting as a court, however, we cannot be ruled by emotion.” For Washington Post coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38142-2003Jul10.html
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