City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health

City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 30, 1982 Decided June 15, 1983
Full case name	City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, et al.
Citations	462 U.S. 416 (more) 103 S. Ct. 2481; 76 L. Ed. 2d 687
Case history
Prior	Akron Ctr. for Reproductive Health, Inc. v. City of Akron, 479 F. Supp. 1172 (N.D. Ohio 1979); affirmed in part, reversed in part, 651 F.2d 1198 (6th Cir. 1981); cert. granted, 456 U.S. 988 (1982).
Holding
The then-current abortion law of Akron, Ohio, which included a 24-hour waiting period and the requirement that a doctor inform the patient of the stage of fetal development, the supposed health risks of abortion, and the availability of adoption and childbirth resources, was unconstitutional.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by White, Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV; Akron Codified Ordinances, ch. 1870, § 1870.03, § 1870.05, § 1870.06, § 1870.07, § 1870.16 (Akron Ordinance No. 160-1978)
Overruled by
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed its abortion rights jurisprudence. In a majority opinion by Lewis F. Powell Jr., the Court struck down several provisions of an abortion law of Akron, Ohio, including portions found to be unconstitutionally vague.^[1]