From sanctity to screening: Genetic disabilities, risk and rhetorical strategies in wrongful birth and wrongful conception cases

Feminist Legal Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-191

  Mackenzie, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Disability; Feminism; Genetic testing; Genetics; Reproduction; Rhetorical strategies; Risk; Wrongful birth; Wrongful life

Indexed keywords

EID: 33044499299     PISSN: 09663622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009235602773     Document Type: Article

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