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The contradiction in disability law : selective abortions and rights /

This title explicates the unproblematic perception towards disability selective abortions. It demonstrates the wrongness of selective abortions, but without entering the realm of a womens right to take decisions about her body and analyses the legitimacy of automatic decision taken to abort the fetu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nizar, Smitha (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > India.
Sex preselection > Law and legislation > India.
Abortion > Law and legislation > India.
Prenatal diagnosis.
Abortion, Eugenic > legislation & jurisprudence
Prenatal Diagnosis
Sex Preselection > legislation & jurisprudence
Persons with Disabilities > legislation & jurisprudence.
Human Rights > legislation & jurisprudence
India
Diagnostics prénatals.
Abortion > Law and legislation
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Sex preselection > Law and legislation
India.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York, 13 December 2006).
Invalidity.
Abortion.
Human life.
Human rights.
Ethics.
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This title explicates the unproblematic perception towards disability selective abortions. It demonstrates the wrongness of selective abortions, but without entering the realm of a womens right to take decisions about her body and analyses the legitimacy of automatic decision taken to abort the fetus, once diagnosed with disability.
Physical Description:1 online resource (lxii, 220 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
ISBN:9780199087174
0199087172