Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors

by Helena Silverstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814740316
• ISBN13: 9780814740316
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"