In Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning Justin Buckley Dyer explores the analogy of abortion and slavery from historical, politica
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He {Dyer} argues that there is no principled reason for treating a fetus as a nonperson, lacking the protection of law. In the slavery-abortion analogy, pregnant women are to the aborted fetus as slaveholders are to slaves. Nonetheless,
Dyer fails to address the arguments of those who have stressed women's interests of equality and liberty in his otherwise detailed analysis of the numerous scholars and ethicists on both sides of the abortion debate.