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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824621303321

Autore

Silverstein Helena

Titolo

Girls on the stand : how courts fail pregnant minors / / Helena Silverstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

1-4798-4128-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

342.73084

Soggetti

Abortion - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I Parental Involvement Mandates""; ""1 A Balancing Act""; ""2 The Legal Landscape""; ""II Gaining Access to the Bypass Process""; ""3 Satisfaction""; ""4 Ignorance""; ""5 Misconduct""; ""III The Judicial Pulpit""; ""6 Judgment Day""; ""7 Facing the Fetus""; ""IV Law and Politics""; ""8 The Constitutional Fine Print""; ""9 Myth-Guided Policy""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008  The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that states may require parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors as long as minors have the opportunity to petition for a &#"bypass" of parental involvement. To date, virtually all of the 34 states that mandate parental involvement have put judges in charge of the bypass process. Individual judges are thereby responsible for deciding whether or not the minor has a legitimate basis to seek an abortion absent parental participation. In this revealing and disturbing book, Helena Silverstein pr