According to the case report, the plainfiff Tanisha Roddy became sexually active in 1990 and had an ongoing relationship with a young man. In July,1990 she spent two weeks visiting her aunt in New York City and while there she sought medical treatment for a vaginal infection from her aunt's ob/gyn. At the same time she requested a pregnancy test which confirmed that she was pregnant. She called the man in Tennessee with whom she had been sexually active, but help was not forthcoming from him. She then called another aunt in Knoxville, Tennessee, who she was aware previously had an abortion and they discussed her options. Tanisha did not want her mother to become aware of her pregnancy and decided to have an abortion. Tanisha returned home and in accordance with pre-arranged plans, requested of her mother that she be granted permission to stay with the aunt in Knoxville for several days. The mother granted permission to do so. She went to Knoxville and went to the abortion facility accompanied by her aunt's room-mate. At the clinic she gave her aunt's address and phone number in Knoxville as her own address and phone number "because she did not want anyone to contact her family" besides her aunt or herself. She was one month short of her 16th birthday. She was counseled by an intake person at the facility and signed a Consent to Abortion form which granted consent to a Dr. Manning to perform an aspiration abortion under paracervical block anesthesia. An ultrasound was performed indicating that she was 14-16 weeks pregnant. Dr. Manning did not do the abortion as he was leaving town that night. She returned to the abortion facility the next day along with her aunt and the aunt's roommate, signed another Consent to Abortion form to be performed by Dr. Perry. The record does not indicate whether the second consent form was for an aspiration abortion under paracervical block but apparently it was the same procedure.