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The Human Body on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents
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The Human Body on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

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A thorough exploration of an individual’s right to bodily autonomy versus the state’s power to regulate and control the bodies of its citizens. * Timeline of major events in the evolution of the legal right of individual autonomy from the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 to the 2002 ruling in State of Oregon and Peter Rasmussen, et al. v. John Ashcroft regarding implementing Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act * Excerpts from key legal documents from the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision to the lesser known Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942) ruling by the Supreme Court overturning the mandated sterilization for three-time offenders convicted of certain felonies

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
5 November 2002
Pages
325
ISBN
9781576073490

A thorough exploration of an individual’s right to bodily autonomy versus the state’s power to regulate and control the bodies of its citizens. * Timeline of major events in the evolution of the legal right of individual autonomy from the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 to the 2002 ruling in State of Oregon and Peter Rasmussen, et al. v. John Ashcroft regarding implementing Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act * Excerpts from key legal documents from the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision to the lesser known Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942) ruling by the Supreme Court overturning the mandated sterilization for three-time offenders convicted of certain felonies

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
5 November 2002
Pages
325
ISBN
9781576073490