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judicial bypass Forensic medicine A form of surrogacy in which a guardian's authority is circumvented and decision-making autonomy passed to the person for whom the guardian had been appointed or designated. See Christian Science, Emancipated minor. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| “[T]he Supreme Court is gonna decide issues like parental notification, which I think is appropriate if you have judicial bypass, and they’re going to decide about late-term abortion … and as long as there’s an exception for the life of the mother, I think that banning of partial-birth abortion is the appropriate thing. The 1995 law allowed minor girls to seek a judicial bypass or declare in writing that she had been neglected or abused. In states where the judicial bypass works well, it's usually because abortion providers take it upon themselves to ensure minors have access to a bypass hearing, Silverstein said. |
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