Girls on the Stand [[electronic resource] ] : How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors

• Autore: Silverstein Helena
• Pubblicazione: NYU Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.7308772
• Soggetto topico: Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States; Judicial discretion -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Minors -- United States; Teenage mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Teenage pregnancy -- United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Girls on the Stand
• ISBN: 1-4798-4128-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480400303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II