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J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Katrina Kimport; Tracy A. Weitz Abstract Context: In the United States, fetal development markers, including “viability” and the point when a fetus can “feel pain,” have permeated the social imaginary of abortion, affecting public support for abortion and the legality and availability of care...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (2): 255–269.
Published: 01 April 1986
... to include protections for handicapped newborns. Activists in the movement chose the issue of Baby Jane Doe because they believed it would attract welcome publicity, give them the appearance of supporting civil rights, and enhance their argument as to the legal rights of the fetus and thus strengthen...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (2): 383–395.
Published: 01 April 1991
... of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Medical technology makes it possible to abort a defective twin fetus while at the same time allowing the healthy twin to complete gestation. It also allows a previously infertile woman to become fertile while at the same time offering a process to reduce the mul...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (2): 335–360.
Published: 01 April 1994
.... Balisy , Sam S. 1987 . Maternal Substance Abuse: The Need to Provide Legal Protection for the Fetus. Southern California Law Review 60 : 1209 -38. Barr , Helen M. , Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth, Betty L. Darby, and Paul D. Sampson. 1990 . Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol, Caffeine, Tobacco...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (2): 181–209.
Published: 01 April 2016
... by the Court in its subsequent cases” ( Casey , 505 U.S. at 871). Given the state's interest in “potential life,” states retained the power to provide to a woman information that had “no direct relation to her health” but was relevant only to “the effect on the fetus” ( Casey , 505 U.S. at 915, 863, 883...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (1): 81–92.
Published: 01 February 1985
... that their official reports will be able to ignore the ethical issues to the extent that the EAB’s report did. For example, the National Com- mission’s Report on the Fetus included one strong dissenting view from a law professor, who complained that fetuses scheduled for abortions should have the same...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (6): 1041–1046.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that such efforts are deliberately designed to deplete reproductive rights advocates of scarce litigation resources. In two chapters, “The Eye of the Storm” and “Facing Your Fetus,” Sanger presents a social history of fetal life, including a dynamic historical review of fetal imagery in art, film...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (2): 399–402.
Published: 01 April 1985
... of why the two sides are so hostile and irreconcilable. To some extent, the two books coincide in their explanations of this infra-gender gap; but they also differ in important ways. Luker and Falik both hold that the abortion debate is not about the legal status of the fetus so much as about...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (4): 967–982.
Published: 01 August 1993
... or a “qualified nonphysician” inform the woman of the availability of printed materials published by the state describing the fetus and the availability of medical assistance for childbirth, assistance in seeking child support from the father, and a list of agencies that provide adoption...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (2): 299–343.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Lynn M. Paltrow; Jeanne Flavin In November 2011, the citizens of Mississippi voted down Proposition 26, a “personhood” measure that sought to establish separate constitutional rights for fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses. This proposition raised the question of whether such measures could...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 813–835.
Published: 01 August 1994
... to birth, both conventional (hospital) and alternative (home birth and mid- wifery), are now interpreted within the framework of what obstetricians consider “safe” for the fetus, for the parturient woman, and in a liability sense, for themselves. Paradigmatically midwives and obstetricians have...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1984) 9 (3): 515–526.
Published: 01 June 1984
... in medical care that have made maternal mortality from abdominal delivery a rare Occurrence, combined with an increased emphasis on the health of the fetus, have encouraged physicians to perform more cesarean deliveries. While it has been suggested that financial incentives also influence cesarean...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (1): 147–153.
Published: 01 February 2004
... in prenatal care in North America and, increasingly, the Western world, has resituated the fetal image beyond pregnancy care books into the visual realm of popular culture. The interplay between religious, cultural, legal, and medical conceptualizations of a sentient, autonomous, and agentic fetus has...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2004
... conceptualizations of a sentient, autonomous, and agentic fetus has many feminist researchers and health care activists concerned that the woman in whose body the fetus resides has slipped from view, with significant consequences. In the first social science book on the topic, anthropologist Lisa M...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (1): 156–160.
Published: 01 February 2004
... in prenatal care in North America and, increasingly, the Western world, has resituated the fetal image beyond pregnancy care books into the visual realm of popular culture. The interplay between religious, cultural, legal, and medical conceptualizations of a sentient, autonomous, and agentic fetus has...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (2): 199–213.
Published: 01 April 1986
... medicine about the ethical dimen- sions of medical choices and the creation of the modern ethics movement in health care. A central issue in this movement concerned the status of the fetus. Some of the issues raised by the abortion controversy and the burgeoning knowledge of genetic disease had...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (6): 1047–1053.
Published: 01 December 2018
... embryos) or from human fetal cells. Ultimately, Hayflick's cell line—created from the lungs of an anonymous aborted fetus from Sweden—wins out. This story depicts the incremental pace of scientific development, the huge stakes of decisions made by federal regulators, and the vagaries of the process of so...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., it associates pregnant people with the social role of motherhood, fabricating an emotional relationship between the pregnant person and the fetus (Ntontis and Hopkins 2018 ). Two out of three states with abortion-specific legislation, Kentucky and Louisiana, mentioned fetuses, and both always did so...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (3): 447–450.
Published: 01 June 2000
... investigating mothers, alcohol consumption, and media coverage reveals how broad concerns about preventing fetal harm evolved into blaming women—not society or men—for irresponsible actions that threatened the fetus and an imperative to “control the behavior of pregnant women...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (4): 691–705.
Published: 01 August 1989
... and rotate the fetus, even though these prac- tices are strongly contested in modem obstetrics (Friedman et al. 1979; Hughey et al. 1978). Obstetricians used midforceps in 35 of the 587 cases that reported the method of extraction. Of the 35 infants extracted with midforceps, nine (25.7 percent...