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Reproductive Autonomy and Regulation: Challenges to Feminism

Shelley Day Sclater, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, Emily Jackson and Martin Richards (eds), Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009, xiv + 267 pp, price £35 (PB), ISBN: 9781841139463 Naomi R. Cahn, Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation. New York University Press, New York, 2009, viii + 295 pp, price $US30 (HB), ISBN: 9780814716823

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Notes

  1. 405 US 438 (1972).

  2. Ibid at 453.

  3. http://www.cryobank.com/How-It-Works/Donor-Qualification (accessed 3 May 2010).

  4. For example, Holly Hunter had twins at 47, Geena Davis had twins at 48, and model Cheryl Tiegs gave birth to twins at the age of 52. Cahn speculates that these pregnancies were almost certainly the result of donor eggs, but that is not generally publicised (p. 25).

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Biggs, H. Reproductive Autonomy and Regulation: Challenges to Feminism. Fem Leg Stud 18, 299–308 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-010-9157-y

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