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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2023
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2023
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli
Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli
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The recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health has been characterized as an outlier because its effect is to erase a previously recognized constitutional right. This paper situates Dobbs in a broader feminist constitutional history. It asks if this retrenchment is really such a unique turn in American jurisprudence when it comes to protections or “rights” that matter most to women’s lived experience. The paper argues that if one opens the aperture of constitutional history to embrace a more capacious view of rights, those afforded to women have often been eroded or erased by state legislatures, Congress, and courts. …