Give me children or i'll die! is it time to consider the uterus as a non-vital organ transplant?

Ethics and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 177-186

  Rutecki, Gregory W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

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