Reasoning from the body: a historical perspective on abortion regulation and questions of equal protection.

INTRODUCTION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 262 I. PHYSIOLOGICAL NATURALISM IN CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 267 A. Physiological Naturalism in Equal Protection Doctrine. . . . 272 B. Physiological Naturalism and Due Process: Roe v. Wade.. 273 1. Roe's account of women's interests in abortion........ 273 2. Roe's account ofstate regulatory interests in abortion. 275 3. Roe's account of the history ofabortion regulation .... 277 II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CAMPAIGN AGAINST ABORTION • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 280 A. Historical Context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 B. The Doctors' Arguments: The Order ofLife .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 1. Maternal/fetal relation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 2. Marriage........................................... 293 3. The state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 C. The Doctors' Arguments: The Disorder ofLife. . . . . . . . . . . . 300 1. The aborting wife: antiabortion as antifeminism. . . . . . . 302 2. Feminism and the concept of voluntary motherhood .. . 304 3. Voluntary motherhood: the debate 308 D. The AMA ~ Accomplishments: The Example of Ohio. . . . . . 314 E. A Transformation in the Law of Gender Status. . . . . . . . . . . 319 III. FETAL-PROTECTIVE REGULATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE •••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 323 A. Physiological Reasoning in Popular Antiabortion Arguments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324