Abstract
The UK’s on-going sex-selective abortion (SSA) controversy remains a major obstacle to the liberalization of national abortion governance, and is an issue broadly attributed to a “cultural” preference for sons among South Asian women. We conceptualize how healthcare professionals “arbitrate” requests for SSA by exploring the tension between its legal status and how requests are encountered by abortion providers. SSA is framed in this article as a legitimate care service that can support providers to meet the diverse reproductive health needs of women to the full extent of the law.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 491-505 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Medical Anthropology |
| Early online date | 18 Feb 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- sex-selective abortion
- arbitration
- reproductive governance
- South Asian
- UK
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