Robin West

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From Choice to Reproductive Justice: De-Constitutionalizing Abortion Rights

118 Yale L.J. 1394 (2009). The Essay argues that the right to abortion constitutionalized in Roe v. Wade is by some measure at odds with a capacious understanding of the demands of reproductive justice. No matter its rationale, the constitutional right to abortion is fundamentally a negative right that rhetorically keeps the state out of the domain of family life....

May 27, 2009