Life's Sacred Value: Common Ground or Battleground?

AM Capron - 1994 - JSTOR
Reading Ronald Dworkin's1 ambitious and fascinating attempt to find a middle way out of
the increasingly heated public battles over th legal regulation of abortion and euthanasia, 2 I …

Life's dominion: a review essay

GV Bradley - Notre Dame L. Rev., 1993 - HeinOnline
There will be no arraignment of Ronald Dworkin for intellectual timidity. Life's Dominion1 is
not only (per its subtitle) an" argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom." …

Rights and the Need for Objective Moral Limits

CE Rice - Ave Maria L. Rev., 2005 - HeinOnline
An Ellen Goodman column told" a tale of two signatures, each bearing the Bush
penmanship." 1 Governor Jeb Bush signed the Florida bill that required restoration of …

The Sanctity of Human Life

E Rakowski - Yale LJ, 1993 - HeinOnline
Life's Dominion defends a novel claim: that disputes over the morality of abortion, assisted
suicide, and euthanasia are fundamentally religious disagreements. They are religious …

What's Law Got to Do with It: Why We Should Mediate, Rather than Litigate, Cases of Wrongful Life

S Benston - Cardozo J. Conflict Resol., 2013 - HeinOnline
The term" wrongful life" is culturally oxymoronic. With" life" religiously connoting a" gift from
God," politically connoting a" state interest," and socially representing an unwitting …

Picking at morals: analytical jurisprudence in the age of naturalized ethics

AN Boyte - S. Cal. Interdisc. LJ, 2016 - HeinOnline
Morality has a central place in the field of jurisprudence and legal theory. Though the
precise relationship between law and morality is deeply controversial among jurists and …

Valuing Intrauterine Life

SW Calhoun - Regent UL Rev., 1997 - HeinOnline
In a recent essay, Julia Hanigsberg seeks to correct what she views as an inadequacy in
feminist discourse about abortion: its failure to" adequately theoriz [e] about the importance …

Many Realities, Many Words: Abortion and the Struggle Over Meaning

I Marcus - 1990 - HeinOnline
In 1973, shortly after Roe v. Wade was decided, I recall waxing eloquent on the wisdom of
that decision at a conference of feminist lawyers and law students." True, it did not give …

Abortion, Ethics, and the Common Good: Who Are We-What Do We Want-How Do We Get There

RJ Araujo - Marq. L. Rev., 1992 - HeinOnline
In truth, I am as distressed as the Court is-and expressed my distress several years ago [in
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services] about the" political pressure" directed to the Court …

Human Rights and Human Life: An Uneven Fit

EG Patterson - TuL. L. REv., 1993 - HeinOnline
The question of when life begins has been a recurring theme in the national dialogue at
least since 1973 when the US Supreme Court recognized abortion as a constitutional right …