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Legislating For The Provision Of Comprehensive Substance Abuse Treatment Programs For Pregnant And Mothering Women, Janet W. Steverson, Traci Rieckman Phd
Legislating For The Provision Of Comprehensive Substance Abuse Treatment Programs For Pregnant And Mothering Women, Janet W. Steverson, Traci Rieckman Phd
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Additionally, in writing this article it became clear that, although the data collection in this area has improved over the past twenty years, more specific data is needed in order to have a clearer picture of the exact nature of the unmet need so that the states can better address it. [...] although the authors were able to obtain enough information to provide some suggestions to the states for providing treatment programs for pregnant and mothering women, work in the area is severely limited by the lack of accessible data.
Rethinking Visitation: From A Parental To A Relational Right, Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
Rethinking Visitation: From A Parental To A Relational Right, Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
[...] visitation rights are considered to arise from the very fact of parenthood, so that parents are entitled to this right simply by being legally recognized as parents. [...] visitation rights are subject to the general rule of parental exclusivity: only a child's legal parents have rights considered parental, and non-parents cannot acquire them.
A Man’S Right To Choose His Surname In Marriage: A Proposal, Michael Mahoney Frandina
A Man’S Right To Choose His Surname In Marriage: A Proposal, Michael Mahoney Frandina
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
[...] a brief history of marital and naming practices will outline how these two concepts have shifted to a primarily private issue today, as compared with the Middle Ages, when they were primarily public issues highly concerned with property matters. [...] naming involves important issues in the construction of one's identity.
A Right To Choose?: Sex Selection In The International Context, Ashley Bumgarner
A Right To Choose?: Sex Selection In The International Context, Ashley Bumgarner
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
While there is some debate among doctors, ethicists, and the general public about the level of medical necessity that should justify a sex-selection procedure, most accept that sex selection for medical reasons is beyond ethical reproach, and in some situations, should even be encouraged.9 However, elective, non-medical sex-selection, which is often performed for social or financial reasons, is the subject greater scrutiny and impassioned ethical debate.10 Currently, doctors and geneticists are able to diagnose more than five hundred separate medical conditions in a developing fetus.11 Among these conditions are devastating genetic diseases such as hemophilia, Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's …
Preservationism, Or The Elephant In The Room: How Opponents Of Same-Sex Marriage Deceive Us Into Establishing Religion, Justin T. Wilson
Preservationism, Or The Elephant In The Room: How Opponents Of Same-Sex Marriage Deceive Us Into Establishing Religion, Justin T. Wilson
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
The overwhelming majority of support for bans on same-sex civil marriage has come from religious believers, and the so-called "secular justifications" for these bans are mere pretexts for religious beliefs that homosexuality, homosexuals, and same-sex couples are evil or sinful. Courts should take a hard look at the substantive justifications offered in support of same-sex marriage bans, bearing in mind that (1) these justifications are universally offered by religious believers but are infrequently offered by credentialed Secularists, and (2) they are the result of a studied use of pretextual, secular-sounding language to cloak a religiously-motivated bias against homosexuals and same-sex …