article_snippet: Alabama has turned what is supposed to be an informal, child-centered hearing into more of a trial.
article_snippet: the Supreme Court has required that these hearings "must assure that resolution ... be completed with anonymity and sufficient expedition to provide an effective opportunity for an abortion to be obtained.
article_snippet: In plain language, hearings must be quick and quiet, and hearings cannot be held in kangaroo court.
article_snippet: The problem is, this does not give a lot of detailed direction to courts about how exactly to conduct these hearings.
article_snippet: In this case, the ACLU's position is that creating an adversarial hearing goes too far.
article_snippet: A hearing is fine, it seems, but something approaching a trial rises to the level of an impermissible "undue burden" on the right to have an abortion.
article_snippet: This means Supreme Court can then arrive at this Kafkaesque, perplexing alternative
highlights_snippet: Cevallos says a court hearing makes sense, but an adversarial process, like a trial, is questionable .