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#16: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion

#16: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion

FromPractical Ethics


#16: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion

FromPractical Ethics

ratings:
Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Geoffrey Stone, Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, comments on the June 2022 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson that overruled Roe v. Wade and declared that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee women a right to abortion. Stone is the author of Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-first Century. See his CV at https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/stone-g.  In a postscript, the host Dr. Perry reads portions of the dissenting opinion written by justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan. 
Released:
Jun 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (18)

This podcast series explores a wide range of practical ethical questions, hosted by Dr. David Perry, Director of the Practical Ethics Institute. Dr. Perry earned a Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School, taught ethics in undergraduate and graduate schools for 24 years, and published a book and over 50 articles in the field.