Abstract

As Professor Dov Fox points out in his essay, reference to "potential life" in American abortion jurisprudence is both indeterminate and underspecified. This commentary highlights that use of the phrase "potential life" by courts also obscures the fact that a position has been taken that biological life is not the equivalent of legal personhood. Worse, the position has been imposed on those who do not share it without offering reasons to justify its imposition in terms that those who oppose it can reasonably be expected to endorse.

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