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A Realistic Approach to Maternal‐Fetal Conflict
Author(s) -
HORNSTRA DEBORAH
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528225
Subject(s) - fetus , psychology , medicine , pregnancy , biology , genetics
We should not think of babies as having a right to be born healthy. We cannot say what such a right involves, and if we could, enforcing it would infringe on the mother's most basic rights. Most importantly, positing such a right casts the fetus and mother as adversaries, and so destroys the maternal‐fetal relationship.

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