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Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy
Author(s) -
Overall Christine
Publication year - 1990
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 - 10.2307/3563154
Subject(s) - fertility , abortion , infertility , context (archaeology) , autonomy , pregnancy , psychology , family planning , medicine , obstetrics , social psychology , gynecology , developmental psychology , population , political science , law , paleontology , environmental health , biology , research methodology , genetics
The “demand” for selective termination of pregnancy is a socially constructed response to prior medical interventions in women's reproductive processes, themselves dependent on cultural views of infertility.