ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant’s political and legal theory affirms a feminist- and queer-friendly conception of abortion and homosexuality that is worth taking seriously. Contemporary liberal theories of justice, therefore, struggle both to identify what distinguishes questions of abortion and sexual activities from other questions of right and thereby capture the gravity of the wrongdoing involved in coercively restricting homosexual interactions and abortion as such. The chapter argues that Kant's theory of justice is able to capture the fundamental ground for women’s rights in his understanding of the bodily integrity of the person. She also challenge the view that the rights to abortion and homosexuality are the result of prudential considerations or considerations of tolerance. On the Kantian account, it is in virtue of being persons, or beings deemed capable of assuming responsibility for our actions, that notions of rights and duties are possible.
