Michael M. Uhlmann

American society may soon embark upon the most important constitutional debate since the early nineteenth century. Then the issue was slavery, and the question was whether one human being may own property in another; now the issue is assisted suicide, and the question is whether one human being may . . . . Continue Reading »

Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon or late be used to justify other forms of medical killing such as voluntary and, eventually, involuntary euthanasia. Slippery slope arguments are often overdone, but the fact remains that virtually . . . . Continue Reading »

It is now twenty-one years since Harry Blackmun assaulted American constitutional jurisprudence with his opinion in Roe v. Wade . The Justice labored mightily only to produce an intellectual and moral embarrassment, one that will shadow him forever in much the same way and for much the same reason . . . . Continue Reading »