Recently added articles from Texas Journal of Women and the Law:
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT LAWS FOR ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: CAN INTERNATIONAL LAW SECURE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR MINORS?
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction For the past fifteen years, international law and policy have increasingly established broad-based support for the advancement and protection of children's rights.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), first adopted on November 20, 1989 by the ...
COLD COMFORT PHARMACY: PHARMACIST TORT LIABILITY FOR CONSCIENTIOUS REFUSALS TO DISPENSE EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction I first learned about emergency contraception as a first-year college student. Returning from the semester break just after New Year, a friend and I began comparing notes about our respective holidays. "It was awful," she told me. "You try driving a crying girl around for ...
THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION IN TEXAS: WHY IT IS FAILING TO AID DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS ON WELFARE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Apr 01, 2007; ... I would just try to be on my own . . . but it's . . . gosh, I depend on him so much, and I don't want that, ya know . . . . Sometimes he does threaten me, says, "Well who's gonna pay your lights and this and that." . . . Like today, it's Friday. He's gonna give me some money to pay the lights ....
THE MEANING OF "LIFE": THE MORNING-AFTER PILL, THE QUESTION OF WHEN LIFE BEGINS, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a ...
A CASE AGAINST THE FEDERAL PROTECTION OF MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction The social meanings associated with marriage vary widely by culture, community, and individual. Despite the myriad subjective meanings attached to marriage, however, the marriage contract in the United States represents a legal and economic relationship sanctioned and ...