Catholic legal scholar (and colleague at St. Thomas to Tom Berg and Rob Vischer) Teresa Collett has been involved in a very interesting discussion this week over at Legal Affairs.  Check it out by clicking here.  Here's the set up:

DEBATE CLUB 3/13/06

Parent-Free Abortion?

Kimberly Mutcherson and Teresa S. Collett debate.

Laws requiring that young women notify or get the consent of their parents before ending pregnancies are fiercely debated on the perimeter of the controversy about the constitutional right to abortion. Supported in the landmark case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, these limits either reduce abortion rates or not, depending on the study, but whatever their statistical effect the laws implicate personal rights.

Should parents have the right to prevent their daughters from having abortions?

Kimberly Mutcherson is an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden. Teresa S. Collett is Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.