J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

Who Decides? (eBook, PDF)

The Abortion Rights of Teens

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313016288
• Artikelnr.: 68528890

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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