Refining Permissible Abortion Regulations: Mandatory In-Person, Informed-Consent Meetings Held Constitutional, but Restriction on Number of Petitions by Minors for Judicial By-Pass of Parental-Consent Requirement Overturned - Cincinnati Women's Services, Inc. v. Taft1 - The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that a provision of Ohio's abortion statute limiting minors to only one petition for judicial bypass of the parental-consent requirement for an abortion was an unconstitutional undue burden, but upheld a provision requiring an in-person meeting with a physician at least twenty-four hours prior to receiving the abortion.2
Prior to 1998, Ohio law …