concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: fetal rights

fetal rights
type: Concept
broader: right to life
broader: gender and politics
definition: Medical technologies increasingly provide new ways of seeing and knowing the body. In pregnancy, fetal imaging technologies, diagnostic tools, and fetal surgeries have changed the status of the fetus from organism to personhood, a social status reserved for living human beings. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Fetal Rights/Public Fetus]

gender and politics
type: Concept
narrower: fetal rights

right to life
type: Concept
narrower: fetal rights