A Statement on Abortion by 170 Obstetricians/ Gynecologists after the Reversal of Roe v Wade.
In a recent American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 900 professors submitted a Special Report calling for reinstating federal protection for abortion. Here, we provide an alternative consensus statement. Induced abortion is not a constitutional right. We, too, value patient autonomy, but auto...
| Publicado en: | Issues in Law & Medicine Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 83 - 100 |
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