Families on the frontier
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Date
2005
Authors
Kevin, Catherine Elizabeth
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Griffith University
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Abstract
When considering questions of access, an argument for procreative autonomy is an
interesting starting point. Its compelling logic, when applied to abortion debates, posits that
women should be trusted to make abortion decisions outside of the scrutiny of criminal
law. In the face of the term "autonomy", it has been noted that women's abortion decisions
are frequently made in consultation and with a view to how their decisions will affect
others, including the child they could bear. The same can be said of women who travel to
the reproductive technological frontier. Their individual and complex embodied
experiences and their decision-making processes need to be fully considered in future
debates about regulation so that the meanings of these technologies are articulated by those
whose lives bear their most profound marks. And in the speculation that these debates
entail about ways in which current and future uses of reproductive technologies could
change the constitution of populations and future social relations, mothers and their
families - whichever form they take - must be given room to tell their stories.
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Human reproduction, IVF, Pregnancy, Maternity, Human conception, Procreation
Citation
Kevin, C., 2005. Families on the frontier. Griffith Review Edition 10 - Family Politics, 1-12.