Please read the attached Chapters of the following textbook: Marlene A. Pontrelli and J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, Family Law in Focus, Wolters-Kluwer (2017)
Please answer the following two prompts. Please ONLY use Bluebook Citation for sources:
Prompt #1
Background: In a series of cases, largely decided in the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized adolescents as ‘constitutional persons.’ The Court determined that adolescents possessed the same constitutional due process and equal protection rights as adults in some respects, but not in others.
Required Discussion: Read Belloti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 629 (1979). What legal and ethical arguments exist for allowing a (minor) teenage girl to receive abortion services without parental knowledge and consent? What legal and ethical arguments exist for requiring ‘adult’ consent before an abortion is performed? Discuss.
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Prompt #2
Background: In a series of cases, beginning in the 1970s, courts and lawmakers began extending various rights to non-married persons in an attempt to protect their ‘relational interests’ These statutes and cases did not, however, extend a “full range” of benefits.
Required Discussion: Upon review of the cases discussed in this chapter, what legal and ethical arguments exist for prohibiting unmarried persons (either male/female or same sex) from enjoying all of the cohabitation ‘relational interests’ enjoyed by married persons? What legal and ethical arguments exist for allowing full participation in these benefits? Discuss.
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