Alaska: Challenge to abortion initiative fails
According to the Anchorage Daily News, a Superior Court judge has ruled against the legal challenge filed by Planned Parenthood of Alaska against a ballot initiative that would require doctors to notify a parent if a daughter under the age of 18 is seeking an abortion. The challenge was based on a previous Alaska Supreme Court decision that an earlier parental notification law violated patients’ right to privacy. Although the court decided this new initiative (set to go on the Aug.