Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1970
Publication Information
3 Adel. L. Rev. 431 (1967-1970)
Abstract
This article concerns the legitimacy of various legal schemes for dealing with abortion. Legitimacy in one sense is secured simply by complying with the formal criteria for valid law-making: enactment within power and in due form. But jurists have learned (or re-learned) that more can be said about legitimacy, without betraying the purity of their discipline by moralizing and advocacy. From this development in jurisprudential thought emerges the range of questions and criteria deployed in the present study.
Recommended Citation
John M. Finnis,
Abortion and Legal Rationality,
3 Adel. L. Rev. 431 (1967-1970).
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Comments
Reprinted with permission of Adelaide Law Review.