In this Article, I explore how nearly continuous public rhetorical challenges to abortion in the political realm first led the public and the courts to turn away from a particular abortion procedure (intact dilation and extraction, also known as partial-birth abortion) which political agitators labeled as “barbaric” and then to view physicians who performed abortions not as legitimate professionals, but simply as “abortionists,” and sometimes as evil “Frankensteins.” “Abortionists” use no “medical judgment” and are unworthy of deference by state legislatures, Congress, or the courts when deciding how or when to perform an abortion. The concentration on the welfare of fetuses and the actions of physicians permitted the abortion debate to bypass discussion of both the rights and welfare of pregnant patients, including their right to health, and to virtually never mention that abortion restrictions primarily affect people in poverty who cannot afford to seek reproductive health care, including an abortion, by traveling to a nonrestrictive state. Understanding the power of extreme rhetoric, including the use of social media in political campaigns and the use and misuse of concrete terms such as murder, infanticide, brutality, and dismemberment, and abstract concepts such as “human dignity,” can help us plot a post-Dobbs way forward. Perhaps the demise of Roe can lead to a birth of a new rhetoric on abortion, one that concentrates on the right to health of everyone, including the right to make reproductive decisions, and requires moving abortion back into the realm of contemporary medicine, complete with a meaningful doctor-patient relationship protected by privacy and financed in a way that is accessible to all pregnant patients.

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信任、残忍和人类尊严：“部分出生堕胎”如何帮助塑造美国的生命政治

在这篇文章中，我探讨了在政治领域几乎持续不断的对堕胎的公开修辞挑战是如何首先导致公众和法院远离特定的堕胎程序（完整的扩张和提取，也称为部分出生堕胎），而政治煽动者被贴上“野蛮”的标签，然后将进行堕胎的医生视为合法的专业人士，而不仅仅是“堕胎主义者”，有时甚至是邪恶的“科学怪人”。“堕胎主义者”不使用“医学判断”，在决定如何或何时进行堕胎时，不值得州立法机构、国会或法院的尊重。对胎儿福利和医生行为的关注允许堕胎辩论绕过对孕妇权利和福利的讨论，包括他们的健康权，并且几乎从不提及堕胎限制主要影响贫困人口，他们无法通过前往不受限制的州来寻求生殖保健，包括堕胎。了解极端言论的力量，包括在政治运动中使用社交媒体，以及使用和滥用谋杀、杀婴、残暴和肢解等具体术语，以及“人的尊严”等抽象概念，可以帮助我们策划一个后多布斯的前进方向。也许 Roe 的死会导致一种关于堕胎的新言论的诞生，一种关注每个人的健康权，包括做出生育决定的权利，并要求将堕胎重新纳入当代医学领域，