Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The Conscience of a Nation
	Slavery and Abortion
2 Substance, Procedure, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights
	The Origins of the Due Process Clause
	Dred Scott and Due Process
	The Fourteenth Amendment and Fundamental Rights
	Slaughter-House and Constitutional Meaning
	Property and Substantive Due Process
3 Dred Scott, Lochner, and the New Abortion Liberty
	From Adkins to West Coast Hotel
	Footnote Four and the Search for Fundamental Rights
	Substantive Due Process and the Abortion Liberty
	The Nexus of Dred Scott and Roe
	The Substance of Roe
4 Constitutional Disharmony after Roe
	The Logic of the Abortion Liberty
	“Partial-Birth” Abortion and the Logic of Roe
	The Line between Abortion and Infanticide
	The Outer Edges of the Abortion Liberty
	Abortion, History, and the Fourteenth Amendment
5 The Politics of Abortion History
	Means, Mohr, and the Phoenix of Abortion Freedom
	Reframing the Abortion Debates
	The Politics of Abortion History
6 Private Morality, Public Reasons
	Slavery, Abortion, and Public Debate
	Public Reasons and God’s Reasons
	Science and the Pro-Life Argument
	The Axioms of a Free Society
7 Personhood and the Ethics of Life
	Personhood and Political Liberalism
	Infanticide and Human Persons
	Performance v. Endowment
	The Collapse of the Western Ethic
	Killing Persons
	The Dark Side of Abolition
	Slavery, Abortion, and the Ethics of Life
Index