The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 8 (2022)

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The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 8 (2022)

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SPECIAL ISSUE: ROE V. WADE (Please note that the target articles and commentaries for this issue were written and accepted before the Dobbs decision though after the leaked documents)

Guest Editorial

Why I’m Not Backing down from Fighting for Our Right to Abortion
Judy Chu
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Target Articles

Beyond Abortion: The Consequences of Overturning Roe
Lynn M. Paltrow, Lisa H. Harris & Mary Faith Marshall
Pages: 3-15
Published online: 02 Jun 2022
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The End of Roe v. Wade
Mary Ziegler
Pages: 16-21
Published online: 20 May 2022
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The Ethics of Access: Reframing the Need for Abortion Care as a Health Disparity
Katie Watson
Pages: 22-30
Published online: 27 May 2022
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Open Access

Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Ending the Debate Whether State-Mandated Pregnancies are Matters of Bioethics Concern
Michele Goodwin
Pages: 31-33
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Yes, All Bioethicists Should Engage Abortion Ethics, but Who Would Be Interested in What They Have to Say?
Nathan Nobis
Pages: 33-36
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Executive, Legislative, Judiciary, & Clinic: How the Fall of Roe Will Entrench Clinicians as Agents of the State and Create Ethical Conflicts throughout Medical Practice
Erica Andrist
Pages: 36-38
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Roe v. Wade Was a Profound Disservice to the Country
Wesley J. Smith
Pages: 39-41
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Travel to Other States for Abortion after Dobbs
I. Glenn Cohen
Pages: 42-44
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Trauma Upon Trauma
Megan Antonetti
Pages: 44-46
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Private Conversations, Public Debate
Siripanth Nippita, Christina Jung, Johana D. Oviedo & Gwendolyn P. Quinn
Pages: 47-49
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
The Role of Epistemic Injustice in Abortion Access Disparities
Margaret M. Matthews, Aashna Lal & Danielle Pacia
Pages: 49-51
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training
Melissa Montoya & Beverly A. Gray
Pages: 52-54
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Have Clinical Ethicists Been Complicit With the Marginalization of Abortion and What Can We Do to Improve Patient’s Rights?
Jeffrey P. Spike
Pages: 54-56
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
De-Medicalizing Abortion
B. Jessie Hill
Pages: 57-58
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Another Consequence of Overturning Roe: Imperiling Progress on Clinical Research in Pregnancy
Miranda R. Waggoner & Anne Drapkin Lyerly
Pages: 59-62
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Beyond Abortion Clinics: How Overturning Roe Will Obstruct Life-Saving Research and Fetal Therapy
Marsha Michie
Pages: 62-64
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Rethinking Fetal Personhood in Conceptualizing Roe
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson & Joel Michael Reynolds
Pages: 64-68
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
More than Semantics: Abortion Access and Equity
Claire M. Moore & Holly A. Taylor
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
A Health Disparity Framework for Abortion Eliminates Critical Discourse and Debate
Laura Madigan-McCown
Pages: 70-71
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Abortion and the Intersection of Ethics, Activism, and Politics
Elizabeth Lanphier
Pages: 72-74
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Beware the Jackalopes
Thomas V. Cunningham
Pages: 75-77
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Theorizing the Meaning of Health in Abortion Law
Timothy F. Murphy
Pages: 77-79
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
The Fallacy of Relevance and Moral Risks
Stephen Napier
Pages: 80-82
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
The Invisible Prenatal Human Being
Jackson Milton
Pages: 82-84
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
Dignitary Harms and Abortion Law
Eric Scarffe
Pages: 85-87
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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Article Commentary
News Coverage of Abortion in Relation to Race and Class in the United States in 2021
Lihan Miao, Hui Zhang, Li Tian & Yuming Wang
Pages: 88-90
Published online: 02 Aug 2022
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