Two judges on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals obstinately insist on keeping parents in the dark about the health of their children. As a matter of law, they are surely wrong, but what’s worse is how wrong they are as a matter of decency and human ethics.

At issue is a provision in Indiana law that requires that parents usually be notified when their child seeks an abortion. The law does not require parents to consent, but only that parents be informed when a judge has granted a minor’s abortion request without said consent. Even then, the law lets judges bypass the notification requirement if the notification is not in the child’s “best interests.”