ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics2026
Dignity and Abortion in Law, Philosophy, and Bioethics.
Article in The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Dignity as Sovereignty.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2026Article
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Abstract
Dignity has been a notoriously elusive concept to philosophers. Nevertheless, in the realms of politics, law, and policymaking, appeals to dignity are frequent, and do not always align with the understandings most commonly endorsed by the philosophical literature. This paper considers how "dignity" is frequently appealed to in ethical arguments about the permissibility of abortion, and argues that the judicial decisions related to reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights over the past 30 years in the United States offer deep insights into the nature of "dignity" that philosophers and other theorists ought to pay attention to. These insights not only have profound implications for our understanding of the nature of "dignity," but also for ethical analysis more broadly.
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