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73Regret, shame, and denials of women's voluntary sterilizationBioethics 32 (5): 281-288. 2018.Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well‐studied phenomenon in women’s sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproductive freedom as regret is neither satisfactorily defined and measured, nor is it centered in analogous cases regarding men’s decision to undergo sterilization or the decision of women…Read more
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University of Western OntarioDoctoral student
London, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |