Excellent article. Recent abortion cases have uncovered a weakness in the arguments of the Roe court: if the harms of unwanted pregnancy are largely those of future economic and personal hardship, not pregnancy itself, then the fathers of unborn children have nearly as much right as mothers to terminate a pregnancy. And if men who cause their sexual partners to have unwanted abortions (that’s what happened in some of these cases) can be prosecuted for feticide, why does the law define the fetus as a person if killed by his father and as a non-person, Constitutionally speaking, if killed by his mother?
“The Horse Is Dead, Sir.” “Well, Beat It Some More.”
Faithlife just posted a blog interview they did with me about Authorized. Is there more to be said? Maybe a little! I got my first academic review of Authorized, and though I’m waiting to see if my response will be published in the same journal (the editor was...
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