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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"reproductive freedom"”.
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Reproductive Freedom in the United States and Louisiana: An Assessment of the Last Decade, a Review of the Current Climate, And a Scenario for the Future
Government began legislating abortion in the mid nineteenth century and has controlled access to this service for women ever since. With the creation of hospital boards after WWII, state control over access became further entrenched. Regulations and restrictions since Roe v. Wade limit the …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
… evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their <reproductive rights> concerns, as well as …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
… evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their <reproductive rights> concerns, as well as …
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Development of an automated microfluidic system for the loading and unloading of cryoprotectants from mammalian oocytes
Oocyte cryopreservation is an assistive reproductive procedure that has allowed women to overcome infertility and enjoy increased reproductive freedom. Despite a rapid increase in oocyte cryopreservation cycles over the past seven years, success rates both between and within clinics remain highly …
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Sterilization in the United States: Prevalence and Controversies
… for women. However, many feminists who advocate reproductive freedom also warn that freedom for some might lead to further oppression for others. The case in point is the practice of tubal ligation in the United States. Conflict theory indicates that the field of medicine is a social structure …
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Making change: The role of rhetoric in the politicization of consumption
… social progress ("Help save rainforests, defend reproductive freedom and house the homeless while you save money on long distance calls"). This claim is based on the company's philanthropic and political practices, such as donating 1% of its long distance revenue to "progressive" nonprofit …
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Sex selection : ethical issues for the individual, family and society
… offspring even before they are born. These new reproductive technologies do raise some important ethical questions for us. This thesis briefly considers the morality of the technology being used to achieve sex selection before going on to discuss if there is anything morally objectionable about …
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From Prevention to Protection: Policy, Practice and Pitfalls of Surgical Sterilization in California, 1910–Present
… disabled (1980), saw flagrant abuses of reproductive freedom capture public and political attention in the state. Traditionally, scholarly accounts advancing ideological justifications for how and why involuntary sterilization occurred in California have dominated the historiography. This …
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From bench to bedside, to track and field: The context of enhancement and its ethical relevance
… potential raise a conflict between parental reproductive freedom and children's rights to an open future and capacity for self-determination. Chapter 3 turns to how genetic technologies are translated directly from the molecular medicine laboratory to "track & field," analysing: the …
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The Eugenic Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women: A Case of US Interests and Religious/Spiritual Freedom
… of Choice: Puerto Rican Women’s Struggle for Reproductive Freedom</em> further highlight the limitations of conventional frameworks in capturing the full complexity of Puerto Rican women’s agency and resilience.</p> <p>This thesis contends that spirituality is a crucial lens for understanding …
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“What does this do?” The neoliberal creep, sexual health work and the deregulation of emergency contraception
Beginning with eight women’s experiences in accessing emergency contraception from a pharmacist, this research brings into view the undocumented “sexual health work” of obtaining the drug in northern Ontario. Between 2005 and 2008, emergency contraception was deregulated to behind-the-counter, …