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Volume 330:649-650 March 3, 1994 Number 9
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Women, Pregnancy, and Health Care
Life before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

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By Bonnie Steinbock. 256 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-505494-6.

There may be no more divisive dispute in our society than that about the morality of abortion, because of the fundamental disagreement about the moral status of human life from fertilization through conception and gestation to birth. The present state of this dispute is a gridlock of claims and counterclaims about the rights of prenatal human beings and the rights of pregnant women. This gridlock over rights is of little clinical use for physicians who struggle to make thoughtful ethical judgments about what care ought and ought not to be provided to pregnant women. This book merits serious consideration by . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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