Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive Faculty Scholarship Faculty Publications 2009 Decisional Dignity: Teenage Abortion, Bypass Hearings, and the Misuse of Law Carol Sanger Columbia Law School,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Health Law and Policy Commons, Juvenile Law Commons, and the Law and Gender Commons Recommended Citation Carol Sanger, Decisional Dignity: Teenage Abortion, Bypass Hearings, and the Misuse of Law, 18 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 409 (2009). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1116 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Scholarship Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Archive. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. DECISIONAL DIGNITY: TEENAGE ABORTION, BYPASS HEARINGS, AND THE MISUSE OF LAW CAROL SANGER* I. IN TR O D U C TIO N .................................................................................. 4 10 II. JUDICIAL BYPASS HEARINGS ........................................................ 421 A . O rig in s .............................................................................................. 42 1 B . O peration .......................................................................................... 424 1. The P etition ................................................................................... 424 2. Procedural