Abortion committees as agents of eugenics: Medical and public views on selective abortion following mild or likely fetal pathology

Kin, Gene, Community Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis

Volumn 19, Issue , 2009, Pages 202-225

  Rimon Zarfaty, Nitzan ^a   Raz, Aviad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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