Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court upheld the right to have an abortion as established by the "essential holding"
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was one of the three authors of the "undue burden" standard that she first advocated for in earlier abortion rulings.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist was the senior justice of the four that dissented against the upholding of Roe.
Justice Harry Blackmun, the original author of Roe, would have struck down all of the Pennsylvania abortion restrictions, continuing to apply strict scrutiny.
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Anthony Kennedy
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Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
…minors) parental consent prior to undergoing an abortion procedure. In a plurality opinion jointly written by associate justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and David Souter, the Supreme Court upheld the "essential holding" of Roe, which was that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the…
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President Reagan and Kennedy meeting in the Oval Office on November 11, 1987