With a blogpost over at Michigan State’s Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, feminist bioethicist Jamie Lindemann Nelson has dipped her toes into the acid bath that is the American debate over gender and bathroom access. Nelson has … Continue reading
In the wake of the anti-abortion legislation we’ve seen from Utah, Indiana, Florida, Texas, and multiple other states, people across the country are forced once again to examine their beliefs around the legality and morality of the issue, especially in … Continue reading
The purpose of this post is not to argue against anti-abortion protesters. It is to narrowly and briefly explore what the harms done by principled, committed anti-abortion protesters when they assume that Reproductive Health Clinics, and procedures they perform, are … Continue reading
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It is hard, even frustrating, to be a public intellectual these days. Corey Robin concludes his thoughtful and timely piece about the status, function, and worries of, and about, public intellectuals by stating that We have the means, we have the material. What … Continue reading
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So, a few days ago, this happened: Supermodel Natalia Vodianova has ignited a firestorm of discussion about the rights of the disabled in her native Russia after her autistic sister was kicked out of a Nizhny Novgorod cafe by the … Continue reading
In invalidating same-sex marriage bans nationwide in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment protected marriage as a fundamental liberty, regardless of the sex of the spouses. Specifically, it noted that The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to … Continue reading
This guest post by Jamie Lindemann Nelson (Michigan State) originally appeared at Impact Ethics. Elinor Burkett’s June 7th New York Times editorial, “What Makes a Woman?” has generated a good share of attention—not surprising, perhaps, given how hot transgender is just now and how perennially … Continue reading
When I was working on my review essay on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (forthcoming in the fall in IJFAB), I was looking around for sources about women’s fate under regimes of extreme inequality—in wealth in particular, given Piketty’s … Continue reading
Well, this is just full of horrifying information about the health care system (with a focus on the U.S.). It’s hard to decide what to excerpt, but here are two: Every year in teaching hospitals at the start of July, … Continue reading
