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Record W2346636438 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511596780.007

Moral Authority in English and American Abortion Law

2009· article· en· W2346636438 on OpenAlexaff
Joanna N. Erdman

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Systems and Judicial Processes
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLawConstitutionalismAbortionConstitutional rightPolitical scienceConstitutional lawAbortion lawSupreme courtSociologyPopulationFamily planningPolitics

Abstract

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In R. (on the application of Axon) v. Secretary of State for Health & Another , the English High Court affirmed that “ the duty of confidentiality owed to a person under 16, in any setting, is the same as that owed to any other person .” Young women are entitled to seek and receive sexual health care, including abortion care, without parental notification. The Court resolved the case primarily by reference to the “mature minor” rule, first developed in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA and another . The rule states that a young person can give consent valid in law provided he or she has sufficient maturity and intelligence to understand the nature and implications of the proposed care. The Court reasoned that a logical relationship exists between the capacity to consent and the right to do so in privacy. Parental notification contradicted the mature minor rule and was inconsistent with Gillick . Evidence that without the guarantee of confidentiality young persons may be deterred from seeking care confirmed the rule as good public policy. Axon is also a constitutional case, reflecting a legal landscape that has changed drastically since Gillick was decided more than twenty years ago. Most significant is the introduction of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( ECHR ), which strengthened the language of competing rights and state interests in the English legal system.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score0.090

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.033
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0050.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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