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Professor Orentlicher Testifies about Legislative Proposal to House Public Policy Committee
03/23/2017
A proposal under consideration in the Indiana House would require that parents be notified if their underage daughter goes to court to get consent to get an abortion. Lawmakers heard about the measure March 22. Professor David Orentlicher, himself a former Indiana legislator, testified before the House Public Policy Committee about the proposal. His comments appear in a story about the issue published by Indiana Public Media.
The legislation under consideration is contrary to numerous court rulings on parental consent laws, Professor Orentlicher said.
“From the ’70s on, they haven’t deviated from this: four requirements. And one of the four requirements is that you have to maintain the confidentiality of the minor,” Professor Orentlicher said.
Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes in health care law and ethics. He also is the author of Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch, which was published by NYU Press in 2013.
