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The gender injustice of abortion laws

This commentary is a response to Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska’s article on the treatment of criminal abortion laws as a form of sex discrimination under international human rights law through a study of the communications, Mellet v. Ireland and Whelan v. Ireland. The commentary offers a reading of t...

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Autor principal: Erdman, Joanna N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7888000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31533575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2019.1626181
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spelling pubmed-78880002021-03-30 The gender injustice of abortion laws Erdman, Joanna N. Sex Reprod Health Matters Commentaries This commentary is a response to Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska’s article on the treatment of criminal abortion laws as a form of sex discrimination under international human rights law through a study of the communications, Mellet v. Ireland and Whelan v. Ireland. The commentary offers a reading of these communications, and specifically the sex discrimination analysis premised on inequalities of treatment among women, as an engagement with the structural discrimination that characterises abortion laws, and as a radical vision for gender justice under international human rights law. Taylor & Francis 2019-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7888000/ /pubmed/31533575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2019.1626181 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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