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An Extended Presence, Interstate Style: First Notes On A Theme From Saenz, Bernard E. Jacob
An Extended Presence, Interstate Style: First Notes On A Theme From Saenz, Bernard E. Jacob
Hofstra Law Review
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Minor Rights: The Adolescent Abortion Cases, Martin Guggenheim
Minor Rights: The Adolescent Abortion Cases, Martin Guggenheim
Hofstra Law Review
This article focuses on two Supreme Court decisions (Planned Parenthood v. Danforth and Bellotti v. Baird) in which the Court redefined the entire conception of children's rights. The article suggests that the Supreme Court used a construct of children's constitutional "rights" to restrict the rights of children. By doing so, the Court decisively derailed an incipient children's rights movement that had the potential to liberate children from the dominion of adults. In Danforth, the Court considered for the first time the constitutionality of a state statute that contained a mandatory parental consent provision. The Court struck down that part of …