Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2010
ISSN
0068-0047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In his first book, Ronald Dworkin famously called for “taking rights seriously” by treating them as “trumps” over considerations of utility or the general welfare.1 Taking Rights Seriously (along with other works) provoked calls for taking responsibilities as well as (or instead of) rights seriously, or for engaging in “responsibility talk,” not just “rights talk.”2 In Life’s Dominion, Dworkin himself got on the responsibility bandwagon in justifying the right to procreative autonomy and the right to die.3 He countenanced that government may encourage women to take the decision whether to have an abortion responsibly, so long as it does not compel conformity with its view of the responsible decision.
Recommended Citation
James E. Fleming,
Taking Responsibilities as Well as Rights Seriously
,
in
90
Boston University Law Review
839
(2010).
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