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fetal rights  

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  • 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]

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