UID:
almahu_9947414527502882
Format:
1 online resource (193 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139410922 (ebook)
Content:
For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate aspects of contemporary abortion politics. As is often the case, many of these popular analogies have been imprecise, underdeveloped and historically simplistic. In Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study, Dyer demonstrates that slavery and abortion really are historically, philosophically and legally intertwined in America. The nexus, however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The conscience of a nation -- Substance, procedure, and Fourteenth Amendment rights -- Dred Scott, Lochner, and the new abortion liberty -- Constitutional disharmony after Roe -- The politics of abortion history -- Private morality, public reasons -- Personhood and the ethics of life.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107031944
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139410922
