I am passing along this request for Tracy Davis, a staff attorney with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence in their Washington, D.C. office. If you have any suggestions for her, please e-mail her directly at tjd@xxxxxxxxx Her request: We currently are working on a "friend of the court" brief for a case that the Supreme Court will hear this fall. The case has to do with abortion parental notification laws. Our brief is taking the perspective of how these laws endanger and are unconstitutional for abused teens. This perspective includes teens abused by their parents/guardian and teens in abusive dating relationships. As lawyers, we are doing our best at researching social science data about how parental notification laws place abused teens at greater risk and/or impact their decision-making process regarding accessing abortion/sexual health care serivces. We are reaching out to some social scientists in an effort to get suggestions on whose work (articles, data, books, etc...) might be particularly on point. And it would be great if the research had a class and race perspective as well. -- _________________________________________________ Jane A. Siegel, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Rutgers University 405-07 Cooper Street Camden, NJ 08102 (856) 225-6143 - Phone (856) 225-6435 - Fax jasiegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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