Søren Holm observes n Chapter 2 that the effective freedom of a full exploitation of the new reproductive opportunities is only available to those who are in a position to pay privately. And, that the increase of procreative liberty created by the developments of ARTs has also indirectly decreased the effective freedom of some people; because the broad social acceptance of ART in many countries has changed social default expectations with regard to reproductive choices. This chapter offers an empirical study of these observations.
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Simonstein, F., Balabanova, E. (2009). ‘Can’t Avoid It, Can’t Afford It’: Assisted Reproduction in Israel and Bulgaria. In: Simonstein, F. (eds) Reprogen-ethics and the future of gender. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2475-6_5
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