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Koppelman on the Thirteenth Amendment & Abortion

By Lawrence Solum

Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University School of Law) has posted Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion (PROMISES OF LIBERTY: THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT ABOLITIONISM AND ITS CONTEMPORARY VITALITY, Alexander Tsesis, ed., Columbia University Press, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Many recent works on the Thirteenth Amendment break new ground, deploying the amendment in new and creative ways. This is not one of them. I here restate an argument I made twenty years ago, defending abortion rights on the basis of the amendment. I then consider how the work was received, offer some amendments to the argument, and conclude with some reflections on how, perhaps, it can have more influence in the future.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).