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The health and well-being of women are in needless jeopardy in the United States. Unnecessary risks to health are not shared equally by men, at least not by the more privileged men. Nor are unnecessary risks shared equally by all women. Feminist ethicists articulate an approach to bioethics in the midst of this social reality.
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...when thousands of American women are dying from diseases we can treat, when thousands more succumb to diseases that more research might prevent, and when thousands of babies are born with unnecessary handicaps because their mothers’ medical care was inadequate, then something is deeply wrong.
Leonard Abramson, President of U.S. Healthcare ([1], p. A17)
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Andolsen, B.H. (1994). Elements of a Feminist Approach to Bioethics. In: Camenisch, P.F. (eds) Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics. Theology and Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8362-6_11
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