Legal Studies and Business Ethics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2005
Publication Source
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism
Volume
17
Issue
2
Start Page
327
Last Page
383
Abstract
When the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) was signed into law on April 1, 2004,1 the federal government dishonored nothing less pedigreed than its founding philosophy. The UVVA criminalizes harm to the fetus and sanctions such harm with the punishment that would have befallen the accused had the women carrying the fetus been the one to sustain the injuries instead.2 This Article argues that recent efforts at fetal protection, like the UVVA, defy and defile liberalism, the political theory underpinning this nation's constitution,3 and thereby conduce to the subordination of women. 4
Copyright/Permission Statement
Originally published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminisim © 2005 Yale Law School. Reproduced with permission.
Recommended Citation
Sepinwall, A. J. (2005). Defense of Others and Defensless "Others". Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 17 (2), 327-383. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/lgst_papers/74
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Date Posted: 25 October 2018