Hadley Arkes on the "Right" to Abort

His 2002 Arguments Become Relevant Again

Twenty years ago, when it still seemed on some days that there was a national debate about the abortion right, law professor Hadley Arkes published what may be his finest book, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose. Speaking of the right enshrined by Roe v. Wade and its companion case, a right often spoken of as the “right to choose,” Arkes said, “No …