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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780275983215 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 04/30/2006 |
| Series: | Reproductive Rights and Policy |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword by Sarah WeddingtonSeries 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
What People are Saying About This
Louise Melling
"Shoshanna Ehrlich is one of the nation's leading advocates for adolescents' reproductive health care and rights. With both compassion and candor, Shoshanna is able to step outside the often polarized debate about abortion and provide the reader with real life stories of young women facing the issue."
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Louise Melling, Director, Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU
Gloria Feldt
"Shoshanna Ehrlich's book is a must read for every policy maker to remind them that their actions have consequences in real people's lives. The teens' stories are enlightening, touching, sometimes heartrending. Together, they tell a larger story about our society's refusal to give young women's decisions the respect and support they deserve and how we can rectify that."
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Gloria Feldt, Author of The War on Choice and Behind Every Choice Is a Story and former president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
"Finally we have a book that places young women's experiences at the center of the debate over restrictions on their abortion rights.... [Ehrlich] gives us a new and deeper understanding of the burdens parental involvement laws impose on adolescent girls, the motivation behind the laws, and the integrity of the women's choices."
Marlene Gerber Fried
"Finally we have a book that places young women's experiences at the center of the debate over restrictions on their abortion rights…. [Ehrlich] gives us a new and deeper understanding of the burdens parental involvement laws impose on adolescent girls, the motivation behind the laws, and the integrity of the women's choices."
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Marlene Gerber Fried, Director, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Programs at Hampshire College and Professor of Philosophy
Kenneth C. Edelin
"In this careful and thoughtful analysis of the law, Shoshanna Ehrlich adds an additional dimension to the discourse: the voices of young women who have been through the process and how they arrived at their decisions…. This is a must read for all who care about the lives of young women as they strive to make the right decision about their futures."
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Kenneth C. Edelin, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Associate Dean of Students and Minority Affairs, Boston University School of Medicine
"In this careful and thoughtful analysis of the law, Shoshanna Ehrlich adds an additional dimension to the discourse: the voices of young women who have been through the process and how they arrived at their decisions.... This is a must read for all who care about the lives of young women as they strive to make the right decision about their futures."
"Shoshanna Ehrlich is one of the nation's leading advocates for adolescents' reproductive health care and rights. With both compassion and candor, Shoshanna is able to step outside the often polarized debate about abortion and provide the reader with real life stories of young women facing the issue."
"Shoshanna Ehrlich's book is a must read for every policy maker to remind them that their actions have consequences in real people's lives. The teens' stories are enlightening, touching, sometimes heartrending. Together, they tell a larger story about our society's refusal to give young women's decisions the respect and support they deserve and how we can rectify that."