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Abortion, Relationship, and Property in Labor: A Clinical Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

DONNA DICKENSON
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London, and European Biomedical Ethics Practitioner Education Project
SUSAN BEWLEY
Affiliation:
Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals Trust, London

Abstract

This article will explore a pregnant woman's experience of relationship with the fetus, using a clinical case study in which abortion would have been clinically indicated because of severe fetal abnormality. Emphasizing the pregnant woman's actual experience in this case study helps to highlight inadequacies in how the debate about abortion is usually conducted.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: THE MORALITY OF ABORTION
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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