RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada will begin requiring parental notification for minors’ abortions after a court has lifted a decades long pause on the law.
On Monday, a judge ruled that a 1991 injunction against the Nevada law is no longer applicable law, and the injunction will now be lifted on April 30.
SB510 prohibited the performing of an abortion on a minor without first notifying the parent or guardian.
The law was supposed to take effect on July 1, 1985. However, on June 28 of that year, physician Eugene Glick and Planned Parenthood of Washoe County filed a suit, seeking to prevent enforcement of the law.
In the suit, Glick argued that the law violated the 14th Amendment rights of the physician and the patient and that it violated the Equal Protection Clause by singling out the regulation of abortion procedures and discriminating between married or unmarried women, and unmarried women and unemancipated minors.
Glick moved for a preliminary injunction on the law, which was granted on July 17, 1985.
In 1991, a court permanently enjoined provisions of SB510, which never took effect. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson, however, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford moved to lift that permanent injunction, a moved opposed by the plaintiff, Planned Parenthood.
The court found Ford’s motion meritorious based on the Dobbs decision, and found the injunction should be lifted unless the 1985 law should be enjoined on an alternate constitutional ground.
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