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Jonathan F Will1

  • 1Associate Professor of Law, the Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and the founding director of the Bioethics & Health Law Center at Mississippi College School of Law. He also sits on the affiliate faculty of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. His recent scholarship focuses on the implications of the nationwide Personhood Movement, which seeks to attach the protections of legal personhood at the earliest stages of biological development.

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics : a Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
|August 6, 2015
PubMed
Summary

The legal term "potential life" in abortion cases is vague and lacks clear definition. Courts impose this concept without adequately justifying why biological life isn't legal personhood, disregarding opposing views.

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