H. L. v. Matheson, 450 U.S. 398 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court abortion rights case, according to which a state may require a doctor to inform a teenaged girl's parents before performing an abortion or face criminal penalty.

initiated a lawsuit as part of a proposed class action of unmarried unemancipated females, arguing that Utah's parental notification statute was unconstitutional.

The case made its way to the Utah Supreme Court, where the law was upheld as consistent with Roe v. Wade (1973).

[3] The case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

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