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- Title
Membership Has Its Privileges? Life, Personhood, and Potential in Discussions about Reproductive Choice.
- Authors
Will, Jonathan F.
- Abstract
As Professor Dov Fox points out in his essay, reference to 'potential life' in American abortion jurisprudence is both indeterminate and underspecified. This commentary highlights that use of the phrase 'potential life' by courts also obscures the fact that a position has been taken that biological life is not the equivalent of legal personhood. Worse, the position has been imposed on those who do not share it without offering reasons to justify its imposition in terms that those who oppose it can reasonably be expected to endorse.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HUMAN reproduction -- Social aspects; LIFE (Biology); FOX, Dov; ROE v. Wade; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); MEMBERSHIP -- Social aspects; ABORTION in the United States; ABORTION &; society; ABORTION policy; ABORTION laws; DECISION making; LEGAL status of fetuses; WOMEN'S health; WOMEN'S rights; REPRODUCTIVE health
- Publication
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2015, Vol 43, Issue 2, p358
- ISSN
1073-1105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jlme.12252