Abortion rhetoric in American news coverage of the human cloning debate

New Genetics and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 305-323

  Jensen, Eric ^a   Weasel, Lisa H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; HUMAN CLONING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34250183055     PISSN: 14636778     EISSN: 14699915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14636770601032940     Document Type: Article

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