Seeing, feeling, doing: mandatory ultrasound laws, empathy and abortion

In recent years, a number of US states have adopted laws that require pregnant women to have an ultrasound examination, and be shown images of their foetus, prior to undergoing a pregnancy termination. In this paper, I examine one of the basic presumptions of these laws: that seeing one’s foetus cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mills, C
Format: Journal article
Published: University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics 2018