For 40 years, legislators in Nevada have fought to enforce their law prohibiting abortionists from ending pregnancies in underage girls until their parents are at least notified. A new lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte hopes to keep that fight going, claiming that the statute violates the state’s constitution.

Shortly after Nevada’s Republican-led legislature passed the parental notification law in 1985, it was scrutinized by a federal district court and later put on permanent hold by the 9th Circuit. After decades of judicial roadblocking that was later derailed by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, however, the law is on the brink of enforcement for the first time.

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, hoping to preserve their years-long record of performing abortions on underage girls without their parents’ knowledge, however, is using the state’s recently passed constitutional amendments to argue that the law is not eligible to be imposed.

In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood pretends that keeping parents in the loop about their daughter’s pregnancy and potential abortion is a radical requirement. The abortion facility even painted a carve-out that allows girls to circumvent the law with judicial bypass as “hazy” and “inadequate.”

Instead, Planned Parenthood claimed that girls can choose to rely on other so-called “trusted adults” to inform their decision without the force of the law and suggested that doing so is just as good as letting their legal guardians weigh in.

“The Parental Notification and Judicial Bypass provisions’ requirements, by operation, will delay abortion access for patients subjected to the statute resulting in increased medical risks, physical and psychological harms, particularly if the delays result in forcing a minor to continue carrying a pregnancy to term against their will,” the lawsuit states.

In the same breath it argues that pro-life protections like parental notification laws can cause girls “harm,” Planned Parenthood declared that abortion, even when induced via mifepristone, “is a very safe procedure with exceedingly low rates of complications.”

Studies show, however, that abortion — whether by scalpel or pill — kills babies and leaves physical, mental, and emotional scars on women. The risk of that toll is even bigger for girls, whose bodies and minds are not yet fully developed. Protections that require parents’ involvement in a minor’s pregnancy, on the other hand, are shown to reduce teen female suicide rates.

This is not the first time abortion providers and activists have twisted state constitutions to target parents’ rights. In Missouri, pro-abortionists who promised during the election that parental consent laws were safe used the state’s new unlimited abortion constitutional amendment to go after those safeguards.