(Download) "Reconceiving Pregnancy: Expressive Choice and Legal Reasoning." by McGill Law Journal ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Reconceiving Pregnancy: Expressive Choice and Legal Reasoning.
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 364 KB
Description
The author discusses the issue of medical intervention in pregnancy, and suggests that what is missing from the present discourse on pregnancy and the law is a theoretical framework for choice or decision-making in pregnancy. It is suggested that the inability to formulate an adequate mode of reasoning about the problem of medical intervention in pregnancy has to do with the way in which decision-making in pregnancy is characterized. The author provides an overview of contributions made to the legal academic literature by feminist theorists of varying persuasions and notes that the debate, as framed by feminist writing on the issue, is largely about choices, rather than choice. The author outlines the underpinnings of a new approach to the question of choice in pregnancy, based on an expressive theory of choice, and considers the contribution that such a theory might make to the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that can arise when a pregnant woman refuses medical treatment proposed for the benefit of the fetus. L'auteure discute de la question de l'intervention medicale durant la grossesse, et suggere qu'il manque, dans le discours actuel sur la grossesse et le droit, un cadre theorique pour analyser le choix et la prise de decision durant la grossesse. Selon l'auteure, l'incapacite a formuler un cadre de reflexion adapte au probleme de l'intervention medicale durant la grossesse resulte de la maniere dont est caracterisee la prise de decision durant la grossesse. L'auteure propose une revue des litteratures juridiques feministes de toutes allegeances sur la question, et constate qu'elles ont tendance a parler de plusieurs choix plutot que du choix en general. D'apres l'auteure, la conception liberale traditionnelle, qui sous-tend ces discours, doit etre revue. L'auteure trace les lineaments d'une nouvelle approche a la question du choix dans la grossesse, fondee sur une theorie expressive. Elle examine ensuite la contribution que cette theorie pourrait offrir a la resolution de dilemmes juridiques et ethiques complexes auxquels peuvent donner lieu la decision d'une femme enceinte de refuser un traitement potentiellement benefique au foetus.