{"product_id":"9780313016288","title":"Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Teens (Reproductive Rights and Policy Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e era. Parental involvement laws reach to the core of the parent-teen relationship in the highly contested realm of adolescent sexuality. This is the first book to examine in thorough detail the decision-making experiences of teens considering abortion. Shoshanna Ehrlich evaluates the Supreme Court's efforts to reconcile the historically based understanding of teens as dependent persons in need of protection with a more contemporary understanding of them as autonomous individuals with adult-like claims to constitutional recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABC-CLIO, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070019289328,"sku":"9780313016288","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780313016288_p0.jpg?v=1763678028","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780313016288","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}