{"id":12575,"date":"2025-07-03T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:40:59","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-hear-dispute-over-montana-abortion-consent-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12575","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over Montana abortion consent law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a dispute over a Montana law that would have required notarized parental consent for a minor to receive an abortion.<\/p>\n

State lawmakers have argued that parents have a constitutional right to make decisions concerning the care, custody and control of their children.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood of Montana, in challenging the law, argued that minors have a constitutional right to privacy that cannot be infringed.<\/p>\n

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A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, June 1, 2024.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Montana Supreme Court struck down the law on state constitutional grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court now leaves that decision in place.<\/p>\n

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case, saying it “provides a poor vehicle” for addressing the constitutional question about the rights of parents, which they suggested they are open to resolving in a future case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a dispute over a Montana law that would have required notarized parental consent for a minor to receive an abortion. State lawmakers have argued that parents have a constitutional right to make decisions concerning the care, custody and control of their children. Planned Parenthood of Montana, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12577,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}