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50 S.U. L. Rev. 10 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/soulr50 and id is 1 raw text is: ON ABORTION: UTILITARIANISM AND DEONTOLOGY Robert W. McGee* and Walter E. Block* We attempt to analyze the highly charged issue of abortion from two completely separate and distinct points of view: utilitar- ianism or pragmatism and deontology. From the former perspec- tive, we offer a mathematical analysis of why overturning Roe v. Wade was a good thing; it increased total utility. In the latter in- stance our basic premise is the Body as Property Doctrine and the right not to be killed unjustifiably. I. INTRODUCTION Abortion, to say the least, is a highly charged issue. The contending sides, the pro-choicers and the pro-lifers, have a great difficulty in discussing this matter in a calm, deliberate, civilized manner. It is our hope that the fresh perspectives we bring to this debate will break the log-jam, and both sides will be able to * Robert W. McGee is a professor at the Broadwell College of Business and Eco- nomics, Fayetteville State University, USA. He has earned 23 academic de- grees, including 13 doctorates from universities in the USA and four European Countries. He has published more than 60 books, including several novels, and more than 1000 articles, book chapters, conference papers and working papers. Various studies have ranked him #1 in the world for both accounting ethics and business ethics scholarship. He is an attorney and CPA (retired), and has worked or lectured in more than 30 countries. He drafted the accounting law for Armenia and Bosnia and reviewed the accounting law for Mozambique. He was in charge of assisting the Finance Ministries of Armenia and Bosnia convert their countries to International Financial Reporting Standards. He is also a world champion in taekwondo, karate, kung fu and tai chi (both Yang and Sun styles), and has won more than 900 gold medals. * Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Econom- ics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, and senior fellow at the Mises Institute. He earned his PhD in economics at Columbia University in 1972. He has taught at Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook, Baruch CUNY, Holy Cross and the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than 600 ref- ereed articles in professional journals, three dozen books, and thousands of op eds (including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and numerous oth- ers). He lectures widely on college campuses, delivers seminars around the world and appears regularly on television and radio shows. He is the Schlar- baum Laureate, Mises Institute, 2011; and has won the Loyola University Re- search Award (2005, 2008) and the Mises Institute's Rothbard Medal of Free- dom, 2005; and the Dux Academicus award, Loyola University, 2007.

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