On November 2nd, 2007, Alaska Supreme Court Justice Robert Eastaugh joined Chief Justice Dana Fabe and Justice Alexander Bryner in voting 3-2 to strike down Alaska's parental consent law, which was passed to ban teenagers from getting abortions without parental consent. The court decided that the consent requirement mandated in the Parental Consent Act of 1997 robs a pregnant teen of her so-called "constitutional right" to make such an important decision herself and transfers that right to her parents or a judge, although Chief Justice Fabe later conceded that a law merely requiring that a teenager inform her parents in advance before getting an abortion might pass judicial muster, since that's a standard used in other states.