Blog Posts in March, 2014

Mother Blocks Father from Being Present in the Delivery Room

In an interesting case out of New Jersey last month, Plotnick v. DeLuccia, a Superior Court Judge ruled that a woman can bar the biological father whom she is not married to, from being in the delivery room while she gives birth. Citing constitutional law regarding reproductive privacy and abortion rights, the court states that “any interest a father has before the child’s birth is subordinate to ...