Abortion library :: Ethics and Justice

Justice for Girls:  On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/739648

"When the US Supreme Court rejected the constitutional right to abortion care, several US states enacted bans.  This legal change exposed critical moral questions about pregnancy in childhood:  What do adults owe to an impregnated girl?  This article shows that both opponents of abortion and defenders of women's rights make a mistake by overlooking that a girl is a child.  Her caregivers should view her impregnation as a malady and take steps to terminate it.  This article presents a novel analysis of a previously unnamed injustice - antigirlism - to make sense of the mistreatment that girls endure in reproductive care. ..."

Authors:  Alyssa Izatt and Kimberley Brownlee.