School districts across the country require parental notice or consent before minors may go on a field trip or even receive a cough drop. But for years, the Supreme Court said that those same minors have a constitutional right to get an abortion with minimal, if any, parental involvement.
Now, the legal tables may have finally turned. The U.S. and Florida supreme courts have said that neither the federal nor the Florida state constitution protects a right to abortion—and a Florida appeals court has now put parents’ right to direct their children’s upbringing back in its proper place.
Since 2004, the Florida Constitution has prohibited the legislature from “limit[ing] or deny[ing] the privacy right guaranteed to a minor under the United States Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court.”
Under state law, a minor can obtain an abortion…
