The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate--or not--and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from Karen Ann Quinlan through Kevorkian and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814798632
• ISBN13: 9780814798638
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"