Self-ownership, abortion and infanticide.
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Self - ownership , abortion and infanticide
Doctors have been placed in an anomalouis position by abortion laws which sanction the termination of a fetus while in a woman's womb, yet call it murder when a physician attempts to end the life of a fetus which has somehow survived such a procedure. This predicament, the doctors' dilemma, can be resolved by adopting a strategy which posits the right to ownership of one's own body for human be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.5.3.133