The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?
John Rawls has held up as a model of public reason the U.S. Supreme Court. I argue that the Dobbs Court is justifiably criticized for failing to respect public reason. First, the entire opinion is governed by an originalist ideological logic almost entirely incongruent with public reason in a libera...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Опубликовано: |
2023
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Год: 2023, Том: 32, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 310-322 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
John Rawls
B Roe v. Wade B Pluralism B ordered liberty B public reason B reasonable values B Dobbs B Abortion B Liberalism |
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| Итог: | John Rawls has held up as a model of public reason the U.S. Supreme Court. I argue that the Dobbs Court is justifiably criticized for failing to respect public reason. First, the entire opinion is governed by an originalist ideological logic almost entirely incongruent with public reason in a liberal, pluralistic, democratic society. Second, Alito’s emphasis on "ordered liberty" seems completely at odds with the "disordered liberty" regarding abortion already evident among the states. Third, describing the embryo/fetus from conception until birth as an "unborn human being" begs the question of the legal status of the embryo/fetus, as if an obiter dictum settled the matter. Fourth, Alito accuses the Roe court of failing to exercise judicial restraint, although Alito argued to overturn Roe in its entirety. In brief, the Dobbs opinion is an illiberal, disingenuous, ideological swamp that swallows up public reason and the reproductive rights of women. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180122000822 |
