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Wait, When Are Abortions Legal? | Planned Parenthood v. Casey

In episode 61 of Supreme Court Briefs, a complicated Pennsylvania law restricting abortions gets challenged, and pro-life folks hope Roe v. Wade will be overturned and abortions will be made illegal. Produced by Matt Beat. All images/video by Matt Beat, found in the public domain, or used under fair use guidelines. Music by Text Me Records/Bobby Renz. #supremecourtbriefs #abortion #apgov Check out cool primary sources here: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-744 Other sources used/further reading: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_casey.html https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/343/ https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2018-09-07/how-a-supreme-court-case-from-pennsylvania-changed-abortion-access-across-the-country Cameo, yo: https://www.cameo.com/iammrbeat?qid=1614915028 Snail mail Mr. Beat: PO Box 1982 Lawrence, KS 66044 Donate to Mr. Beat for great perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/iammrbeat Buy Mr. Beat's book, The Ultimate American Presidential Election Book: Every Presidential Election in American History (1788-2016) https://amzn.to/3fdakiZ Donate to Mr. Beat on Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/mrbeat Buy Mr. Beat T-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.: https://sfsf.shop/support-mrbeat/ More merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/mr-beat/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mrbeat/ Mr. Beat's band: http://electricneedleroom.net/ Mr. Beat on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beatmastermatt Mr. Beat on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammrbeat/ Mr. Beat on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammrbeat Mr. Beat's Discord server: https://discord.gg/g8cZPjt Mr. Beat favorites: POP! Icons: George Washington https://go.magik.ly/ml/11jrb/ Useful Charts: https://usefulcharts.com/?aff=12 Recommended books: Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessing https://go.magik.ly/ml/11jul/ Truman by David McCullough https://go.magik.ly/ml/11jwc/ Studio equipment: Canon EOS M50 Camera EF-M 15-45mm Lens https://amzn.to/3dcNPen Samtian LED Video Light Kit https://amzn.to/3llDwHO TroyStudio Acoustic Panel https://amzn.to/33CkqHn Blue Snowball iCE USB Mic https://amzn.to/2GseOHa I use MagicLinks for all my ready-to-shop product links. Check it out here: https://www.magiclinks.com/rewards/referral/mrbeat/ FTC Disclosure: This post or video contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission for purchases made through my links. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The 1980s The Pennsylvania legislature passes and amends a law meant to limit abortions in the state. What did that law require? That a woman seeking an abortion had to give her informed consent prior to getting it. That the doctor who would perform the procedure had to give the woman what could be interpreted as anti-abortion propaganda at least 24 hours before the procedure was to take place. That any girl under 18 seeking an abortion had to get the consent of one parent. That any married woman seeking an abortion had to show that she notified her husband of her intention to have the abortion. And finally, the law required abortion clinics to be more transparent and keep better records for the state to see. In response, a group of abortion providers, led by Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, sued Pennyslvania’s governor, Bob Casey, who had signed the law limiting abortions in his state. By the way, Casey was a Democrat, believe it or not. You may remember them from like, almost every other episode of Supreme Court Briefs, but the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, decided to help Planned Parenthood in this case. Ok, so the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania determined that all those abortion restrictions were unconstitutional and forced Pennsylvania to not carry them out. And so, Casey appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which mostly agreed with Casey, only concluding that the husband notification part was too much to ask since it potentially could make women vulnerable to spousal abuse, violence, or economic insecurity due to reactions from their husbands. One of the judges in the Appellate Court, future Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, actually dissented on the husband notification part, saying it WAS reasonable. Anyway, this time Planned Parenthood appealed, this time to the Supreme Court, who was actually very interested in looking at another abortion case since Roe v. Wade first said it was ok for women to have abortions. I do have a video on that case, don’t ya know. So here’s the thing. The Court looked a lot different in 1992 compared to how it looked in 1973 during the Roe v. Wade decision. It was supposedly a much more conservative bench. In fact, in 1992 there were eight justices on the bench appointed by Republican Presidents.