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Parental Rights: Whose baby is it anyway?
Susan Freeborn assesses the legal status of the fetus ‘The proposition to tackle is this: the fetus has a right to life against everyone in the world except its mother. The only person who may, with the law’s blessing, end the life of the fetus is the mother of the fetus.’ Why is it that …
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- Burton v Islington Health Authority (
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- Evans v United Kingdom (6339/05) [2007] ECHR 264
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- Jefferson v Griffin Spalding County Hospital Authority 274 SE 2d 457 (Ga 1981)
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- People v Davis 872 P2d 591 (Cal 1994)
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