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Natural Rights and the Right to Choose (Paperback, New ed)
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Over the last thirty years the American political class has come to
talk itself out of the doctrines of "natural rights" that formed
the main teaching of the American Founders and Abraham Lincoln.
With that move, they have talked themselves out of the ground of
their own rights. But the irony is that they have made this
transition without the least awareness, and indeed with a kind of
serene conviction that they have been expanding constitutional
rights. Since 1965, in the name of "privacy" and "autonomy," they
have unfolded, vast new claims of liberty, all of them bound up in
some way with the notion of sexual freedom, and yet this new scheme
of rights depends on a denial, at the root, of the premises and
logic of natural rights. Hadley Arkes argues that the "right to
choose an abortion" has functioned as the "right" that has shifted
the political class from doctrines of natural right. The new "right
to choose" overturned the liberal jurisprudence of the New Deal,
and placed jurisprudence on a notably different foundation. And so
even if there is a "right" to abortion, that right has been
detached from the logic of natural rights and stripped of moral
substance. As a consequence, the people who have absorbed these new
notions of rights have put themselves in a position in which they
can no longer offer a moral defense of any of their rights. Hadley
Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of American Institutions at
Amherst College. He is the author of First Things (Princeton,
1986), Beyond the Constitution (Princeton, 1990), and The Reform
Constitution (Princeton, 1994). He has been a contributor to First
Things, the journal that took its name from his book of that title.
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