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Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Teens
Examines the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. This book evaluates the US Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition.
| Author(s) | By J. Shoshanna Ehrlich. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 30 Apr 2006 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
Examines the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. This book evaluates the US Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition.
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is Associate Professor on the Legal Education Faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Public and Community Service. As Clinical Legal Education Director, she produced a guidebook for young women entitled The Teen
