Sheldon, Sally (2015) The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation. Journal of Medical Ethics, . ISSN 0306-6800. (doi:10.1136/medethics-2015-102712) (KAR id:51585)
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Abstract
In regulating the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, English law has accorded particular significance to two biological events. First, ‘viability’, the moment when a fetus is said to acquire the capacity for independent life, plays an important role in grounding restrictions on access to legal abortion later in pregnancy. Second, equally significantly but far less frequently discussed, ‘implantation’ marks the point in pregnancy from which abortion laws apply. This paper focuses on this earlier biological event. It suggests that an unquestioning reliance on implantation as marking an appropriate moment of transition between two radically different legal frameworks is deeply problematic and is rendered still less sustainable in the light of the development of new technologies that potentially operate shortly after the moment of implantation.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1136/medethics-2015-102712 |
Additional information: | Article is open access. Full text compliant. |
Subjects: | K Law |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School |
Depositing User: | Sarah Saines |
Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2015 16:57 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:37 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51585 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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