Boston University Law Review Online
Situational Ethics and Veganism
Neil H. Buchanan
Online Symposium: Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights
97 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 1 (2017)
Although their arguments are important on their own merits, it is useful to emphasize that this book is in a very real sense a riposte, an answer to an accusation that goes like this: Vegans cannot truly believe in their stated reason for refusing to participate in animal cruelty. If they did, they would also […]
Anti-Abortion Pro-Lifers and Animal Protection Pro-Lifers Have a Golden Opportunity to Work Together
Charlie Camosy
Online Symposium: Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights
97 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 5 (2017)
I’ve been anti-abortion since I found out what abortion was, but I became a pro-life feminist when I learned about the history of abortion-rights activism. For those who aren’t aware, I just wanted to mention that issues surrounding animal protection are exploding in Christian theology. The Journal of Moral Theology devoted an entire issue to […]
The Value of Existence
David N. Cassuto
Online Symposium: Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights
97 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 9 (2017)
Locating identity over time is tricky and gets to the essence of personhood, which is central to both the abortion and animal rights debates. Why is painless killing morally wrong? Or, asked another way: On what basis can one claim an interest in continued existence? The answer depends on whether one believes that selfhood stays […]
Of Abortion and Animals: The Promise and Peril of Legal Rights
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Online Symposium: Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights
97 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 13 (2017)
I want to focus my remarks on the law side of the legality/morality divide that Colb and Dorf so deftly probe. On the one hand, the book tells a limits-of-law story, one that I find quite compelling. But the abortion/animal rights juxtaposition also helps us to think about the promise of law—and legal rights […]
The Sentience Criterion
Sherry F. Colb and Michael C. Dorf
Online Symposium: Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights
97 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 17 (2017)
Beating Hearts addresses a puzzle: Why is there so little overlap between the pro-life and animal rights movements, given that both aim to protect innocent life from human violence? Our answer is that at their respective cores, the movements give very different moral weight to membership in the human species. Although of course all movements […]