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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135128003321

Titolo

Birth control / / Noel Merino, book editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, , 2014

ISBN

0-7377-7071-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Collana

Teen Rights and Freedom

Classificazione

JNF024090

Disciplina

363.9/6

Soggetti

Birth control

Teenagers - Sexual behavior

Sex instruction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Laws prohibiting birth control have gradually been eliminated -- 2. Contraceptive use in the United States / Guttmacher Institute -- 3. The right to privacy protects marital use of birth control : the Supreme Court's decision / William O. Douglas -- 4. The right to privacy in contraception extends to unmarried individuals : the Supreme Court's decision / William J. Brennan Jr. -- 5. The right to privacy protects a woman's right to choose abortion : the Supreme Court's decision / Harry Blackmun -- 6. It is a violation of minors' right to privacy to restrict access to contraceptives : the Supreme Court's decision / William J. Brennan Jr. -- 7. States may require parental consent for abortion if an alternative is available : the Supreme Court's decision / Lewis F. Powell Jr. -- 8. Parental involvement laws for abortion protect minors and parents / Mary E. Harned -- 9. Obstacles to abortion, contraception, and sex education endanger teens / Center for Reproductive Rights -- 10. Teens should get abstinence education, not contraception information / Mary Frances Boyle -- 11. Abstinence-only education violates minors' constitutional rights / Hazel Glenn Beh and Milton Diamond -- 12. Schools for contraception / Rich Lowry -- 13. An educator recounts his fight for privacy in contraceptive use : personal narrative / Bill Baird -- 14. The fight for access to birth control continues today / Jonathan D. Moreno and Frances Kissling -- 15. Birth-control mandate : unconstitutional and illegal / David B.



Rivkin Jr. and Edward Whelan -- 16. The birth control pill should be available over the counter / Jessica Sheehy.

Sommario/riassunto

"Teen Rights and Freedoms: Birth Control: Each volume in the series focuses on a different right or freedom and offers an anthology of key essays and articles on that right or freedom and the responsibilities that come with it"--