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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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"Fundamental" Rights versus State Interests: The Balancing Process | |
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"I Am Not Talking Very Much Like a Lawyer" | |
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The U.S. Supreme Court and "Fundamental" Rights | |
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The Liberty and Rights Protected by the Due Process Clause | |
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Is There a Protected Liberty Interest for Persons Having Intimate Homosexual Relations? | |
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The Limits of Sexual Privacy | |
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Marriage and Marital Privacy | |
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"I Should Like to Suggest a Substantial Change for Your Consideration" | |
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Heterosexual Marriage | |
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Molecular Changes in the Definition and Reality of the Traditional Marital Relationship | |
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The Dilemma of Intimate Violence and Congressional Passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1994 | |
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Same-Sex Marriage | |
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Congressional Passage of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 1996 | |
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The "Rhapsody of the Unitary Family" | |
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"Something Smells about This Case" | |
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Who Is Family? | |
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Family Privacy versus State Interests | |
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Family Privacy Rights versus Personal Autonomy and Other Constitutional Rights | |
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Motherhood or Not, That Is Her Decision | |
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"I Will Be God-damned!" | |
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Not Having Children: Abortion as a Personal Right | |
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After Roe, What Are the Limits of "State Actions" That Regulate the Abortion Procedure? | |
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After Roe, What Are a Husband's Rights? | |
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When a Minor Daughter Wants to Terminate Her Pregnancy | |
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Back into the Vortex: The "Partial Birth" Abortion Controversy | |
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Raising the Child: "Father Knows Best"? | |
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"This Is Really a Ridiculous Case to Be Absorbing Our Time" | |
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Raising and Educating Children | |
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The Mental and Physical Health and Welfare of the Child | |
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Children's Rights: Visiting the Grandparents | |
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"Let Me Go!": Death in the Family | |
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"This Case Should Never Have Been Started" | |
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Terminating Life Support for an Incompetent Family Member: Passive Euthanasia | |
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Active Euthanasia | |
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Family and Personal Privacy in the Twenty-First Century | |
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"She Kept Screaming" | |
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Is the Home Still a Castle? | |
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The "Medical Necessity" Exception and Federal Anti-Marijuana-Use Law | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |