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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Craddock, Joshua J

Titel

Protecting prenatal persons: does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit abortion?

Ist Teil von

• Harvard journal of law and public policy, 2017-05, Vol.40 (2), p.539

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Harvard Society for Law and Public Policy, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The issue of whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit abortion to protect preborn human beings is examined. Scholars who agree in principle with the outcome of Roe v. Wade case have criticized the blanket approach by the Supreme Court in creating a federally protected right to abortion. Other commentators have contested the central holding of Roe but do not believe the Constitution justifies a blanket policy prohibiting abortion either. Some in this camp have argued that a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution is the best or only way to respond to Roe's inadequacies.