title: The State's Interest in Potential Life.
abstract: Courts have resolved a range of controversies by casual appeal to the state's interest in "potential life" that Roe held capable of overriding even fundamental rights. My analysis of this potential-life interest reveals its use to mean not one but four species of concern. I call these prenatal welfare, postnatal welfare, social values, and social effects and demonstrate how they operate under different conditions and with varying levels of strength.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. He received his LL.M. (2013) from Georgetown Law Center (Washington, D.C.); J.D. (2010) from Yale Law School (New Haven, CT); D.Phil. (2007) from Oxford University (Oxford, UK); and A.B. (2004) from Harvard College (Cambridge, MA). His publications appear in leading journals of law and bioethics, and he is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
authors.forename: Dov
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012945:Social Values; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States