Publications by authors named "Christine Nero Coughlin"

Our paper examines what is required to protect and promote effective public discussion and policy development in the current climate of divisive disagreement about many public policy questions. We use abortion as a case example precisely because it is morally fraught. We first consider the changes made by , as well as those which led up to the decision, accompany it, and follow from it.

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The intrusive state has long viewed women as fetal containers. The decision goes further, essentially causing women to vanish when fetuses are abstracted from their relationships to pregnant persons. The ways in which women are first controlled and then made invisible are clearly connected with the move from obedience to omission that has historically affected black Americans.

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