Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

ISBN-13: 9781107031944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 206 str.

Justin Buckley Dyer

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'As Justin Buckley Dyer shows in Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, disturbing parallels exist between the debate over slavery before the Civil War and the debate over abortion now … Dyer's assertion of the moral foundation of America may be difficult to enact, but that does not make it false.' Andrew Evans, The Washington Free Beacon

Spis treści

1. The conscience of a nation; 2. Substance, procedure, and Fourteenth Amendment rights; 3. Dred Scott, Lochner, and the new abortion liberty; 4. Constitutional disharmony after Roe; 5. The politics of abortion history; 6. Private morality, public reasons; 7. Personhood and the ethics of life.