Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minnesota ruling is appealed, it will be the first challenge to a parental-notification law to reach the high court with evidence about the law's actual effects on teenagers. In Minnesota the impact has been dramatic. In the nine years before the statute was enacted, the birthrate for girls 15 to 17 years old in Minneapolis increased 2%. Over the next five years, the rate leaped almost 51% -- a strong signal that teenagers are finding it harder to choose abortion...
...Sharon undergo a formal evaluation to see if she is capable of making decisions about her future. On the whole, the courts have not been sympathetic to Thompson's case. Most states favor blood relatives as guardians of unmarried disabled people, explains Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan. No matter how much you love them, he argues, "when you get to be an adult, you wouldn't necessarily pick your parents to take care of you." Most adults, however, never have...
...major defeat for the prochoice movement, a federal court upholds a Minnesota law that restricts teenagers' right to abortion...
Sharon Kowalski has always been a maverick. While her brother and sister stayed close to home -- the Iron Range of northern Minnesota -- Sharon struck out on her own. She worked her way through college, found a teaching job, bought a house with a friend and developed her passions for photography, cross-country skiing and motorcycling. "I used to tell her I got a new gray hair every time she took off for somewhere," recalls her mother Della. "Kids do lots of things you don't like, but you still love them." In short, a willful young woman...
...that very will is the object of a legal and ethical battle in the Minnesota courts. Five years ago, a drunk driver crashed into Sharon's car, killing her niece and leaving Sharon brain damaged and in a coma. She regained consciousness some weeks later, but could not speak and could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh...