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Abortion and genetic manipulation: breaking with reasoning founded on disrespect for life and human dignity
1Faculté de Droit, Université de Notre-Dame da la Paix, Namur, Belgium.
Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Scientists often base their claim to the right to carry out experiments with embryos on the freedom of women to have abortions. In this article the attempts made by two French jurists to counter this claim are studied. In my view, their juridical line of reasoning needs to be extended from the ban on genetic manipulation to a ban on abortion.
Keywords:
Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchGenetics and ReproductionAbortion LawAbortion, Induced--legal aspectsClinical ResearchEmbryoEthicsFamily And HouseholdFamily CharacteristicsFamily PlanningFamily RelationshipsFertility Control, PostconceptionFetal MembranesFetal TissueFetusHuman RightsJurisprudenceMothersParentsPhilosophical OverviewPregnancyReproductionResearch ActivitiesResearch Methodology