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Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg
Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg
Michigan Law Review
In this essay I reconsider abortion in order to bridge what initially seem to be two opposing frameworks: first, the conception of abortion as an issue of women's bodily integrity and liberty, and second, the acknowledgement of the existence and meaning of intrauterine life. The abortion choice is indeed deeply and necessarily tied to women's bodily integrity. I will discuss how taking away women's ability to control their decision not to become mothers can be severely damaging to their very sense of self, for this denial of decisionmaking divides women from their wombs and uses their wombs for a purpose …
Girls And The Getaway: Cars, Culture, And The Predicament Of Gendered Space, Carol Sanger
Girls And The Getaway: Cars, Culture, And The Predicament Of Gendered Space, Carol Sanger
Faculty Scholarship
What does law tell us about our relations to material things? Property theorists maintain that there are no legal relations between persons and things. Things can be owned, transferred, bequeathed, assigned, repossessed, and so on, but such arrangements really describe relationships among different persons with regard to the object rather than relationships between persons and things.
Yet the quality or shape of the legal relations among persons often depends on the cultural meaning of the thing in question, a meaning (or meanings) that exists, in some form anyway, prior to or independent of, legal concepts traditionally attached to things such …
Remarks Of A Former Welfare Recipient On Selected State Legislative Developments In Welfare, Nitza I. Vera
Remarks Of A Former Welfare Recipient On Selected State Legislative Developments In Welfare, Nitza I. Vera
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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