Who Decides?
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-98321-5 (ISBN)
The question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post Roe v. Wade era. Parental involvement laws reach to the core of the parent-teen relationship in the highly contested realm of adolescent sexuality. This is the first book to examine in thorough detail the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. Shoshanna Ehrlich evaluates the Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a more contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition.
Arriving at a compromise, the Court has made clear that, like adult women, teens have a protected right of choice, but that states may impose a parental involvement requirement. However, so that parents are not vested with veto power over their daughters' decisions, young women must be allowed to seek a waiver of the requirement. Integrating a wealth of social science literature, including in-depth interviews with 26 young women from Massachusetts who obtained court authorization for an abortion, the book raises important questions about the logic of a legal approach that requires young women to involve adults when they seek to terminate a pregnancy, but that allows them to make a decision to become mothers on their own.
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is Associate Professor on the Legal Education Faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Public and Community Service. As Clinical Legal Education Director, she produced a guidebook for young women entitled The Teen Girls' Legal Rights Project (1998).
Foreword by Sarah Weddington
Series Foreword by Judith Baer
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 A Crime No Longer: Roe v. Wade and the Constitutional Right of Choice
2 Young Women and the Constitutional Right of Choice
3 (Mis)constructing Adolescent Reality: Bellotti v. Baird Reconsidered
4 In Their Own Words
5 Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy: The Abortion Decision
6 Parents or the Judge?
7 Child or Adult? The Indeterminate Legal Status of Adolescents
Conclusion
Notes
Resources
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2006 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-275-98321-8 / 0275983218 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-275-98321-5 / 9780275983215 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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