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PAGE 15 — The Georgia Bulletin, September 7, 1989 USCC Defends Parental Notification In High Court Brief WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. Catholic Conference, saying “the integrity of the family is at stake,” filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court Aug. 28 in two cases involving prior parental notification for minors’ abortions. “The integrity of the family unit is itself a privacy in terest deserving constitutional protection,” the brief said in support of state laws in Minnesota and Ohio requiring parental notification. The Knights of Columbus also filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the cases Aug. 28, asking the court to overturn a “judicial bypass” provision in the Minnesota law. Additional briefs will be filed through September in the cases, both of which will be heard during the Supreme Court term beginning in October. No date has been set for oral arguments in either case. Opponents of parental notification laws, the USCC brief said, would “create conflicts between rights of parents and rights of children" and “ultimately ... undermine familial relationships.” Society, the USCC said, “owes much of its stability to the strength of the family and has a vital interest in preserving family integrity,” but “abortion challenges that institution (of the family) and its values, as well as society itself.” The implications of abortion "are especially serious" to a minor, the USCC said. “If she is to appreciate meaningfully the import and consequences of her actions,” it said, “the adolescent needs guidance from knowledgeable and caring persons, not abortion clinic employees who lack intimate information about her life.” The USCC quoted from a 1968 Supreme Court decision that said parents “who have this primary responsibility for children's well-being are entitled to the support of laws designed to aid discharge of that responsibility.” The Minnesota law. in the case of Hodgson vs. Minnesota, was upheld by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis in 1988. The 1981 law requires pregnant girls under age 18 to notify both parents — even in cases of the parents' divorce or separation — and wait 48 hours before obtaining an abortion. The Ohio law, in the case of Ohio vs. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, was struck down by the 6th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, also in 1988. The law demanded either 24-hour notice to a parent or guardian, or written consent by the parent or guardian. In some in stances, a sibling over age 21, a stepparent or grandparent could substitute for the parent or guardian. Both laws contain a “judicial bypass” clause, in which the minor could get court approval for the abortion without prior parental notification. The Knights of Columbus said in their brief that Min nesota's law was upheld providing the judicial bypass re main in force, and that Ohio's law was struck down because the appeals court thought its judicial bypass clause inade quate. “No 'judicial bypass' provision is ever constitutionally required," the Knights argued, contending that “the law recognizes and reinforces” a “fundamental tenet of the American legal tradition, namely that parents have natural authority over their children.” Parental authority, the Knights said, has been recognized in legislation which requires parental consent for minors to travel, marry, and enter into contracts. A judicial bypass erodes that authority, they said. "The fact that a girl's unwed pregnancy may be a predicament more urgent than others hardly proves that a judge, who presumably has never met her before, is better capable of assisting her in facing it than her parents would be.” the Knights said. The Supreme Court ruled once solely on the issue of parental notice. In 1981, the court upheld a Utah parental notice law but restricted its coverage to unemancipated dependent minors. The court has judged unconstitutional other abortion laws which included parental consent provi sions. Those rulings, as well as Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court’s benchmark 1973 decision allowing abortion on de mand, “are aberrations in the law,” the Knights said, “and should be repudiated.” The Knights said a 1976 Supreme Court decision overturn ing a Missouri abortion restriction law that included paren tal consent "seems to presume that an adolescent will suf fer adverse consequences only if she proceeds to bear her child. But abortion itself has adverse consequences, and the girl may live profoundly to regret that choice.” The Knights added, "There is no reason to assume that the family structure has been 'fractured' whenever an adolescent wishes to conceal her pregnancy from her parents. 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