Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists
1986 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case involving a challenge to Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act of 1982.[1][2]
Quick Facts Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Argued November 5, 1985 Decided June 11, 1986 ...
Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | |
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Argued November 5, 1985 Decided June 11, 1986 | |
Full case name | Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, et al. |
Citations | 476 U.S. 747 (more) 106 S. Ct. 2169; 90 L. Ed. 2d 779; 54 U.S.L.W. 4618; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 54 |
Case history | |
Prior | 737 F.2d 283 (3d Cir. 1984 (affirmed) |
Holding | |
Provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 that "wholly subordinate constitutional privacy interests and concerns with maternal health to the effort to deter a woman from making a decision that, with her physician, is hers to make" were unconstitutional. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Blackmun, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Powell, Stevens |
Concurrence | Stevens |
Dissent | Burger |
Dissent | White, joined by Rehnquist |
Dissent | O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
Overruled by | |
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) |
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