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Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care

Alyssa Izatt & Kimberley Brownlee

Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy2026https://doi.org/10.1086/739648article
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When the US Supreme Court rejected the constitutional right to abortion care, several US states enacted bans. This legal change exposed critical moral questions about pregnancy in childhood: What do adults owe to an impregnated girl? This article shows that both opponents of abortion and defenders of women’s rights make a mistake by overlooking that a girl is a child. Her caregivers should view her impregnation as a malady and take steps to terminate it. This article presents a novel analysis of a previously unnamed injustice—antigirlism—to make sense of the mistreatment that girls endure in reproductive care.

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@article{alyssa2026,
  title        = {{Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care}},
  author       = {Alyssa Izatt & Kimberley Brownlee},
  journal      = {Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1086/739648},
}

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