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A 15 page research paper that offers an examination of international law and looks specifically at the issues associated with abortion, assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy. The focus is on how statutory language is utilized and the implications that this holds for male interaction with specific legal codes. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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a crucial ability, such as "reason, impartiality or strength," and so, therefore, could not be entrusted to become fully empowered members of society, but the true reason is no what
women lack, but rather what men lack, which is the ability to give birth (Dickenson, 1997, p. 75). This point is particularly plain in the writing of Thomas Hobbes,
the seventeenth century political philosopher, who made it clear that if "women were allowed to own their own bodies the way men do, they would probably refer not to hamper
themselves in the state of nature with pregnancy, which puts them at a disadvantage in the war of all against all" (Dickenson, 1997, p. 75). The prior "subordination of women
to men and male sex-right over female bodies-the sexual contract-is required to ground the social contract" (Dickenson, 1997, p. 75). Patriarchal cultural practices, that is, the social and political
control of men over women and, thereby, the process of human reproduction was designed to ensure the perpetuation of the species, but also to control female behavior so that men
could have some assurance that they were, indeed, the biological fathers of the children for whom they provide support. While social changes over the last century have been geared toward
providing women with more civil, political and social rights, the traditions of patriarchy and male control of reproduction still survives in the wording and intention of legal codes that govern
reproductive issues. In many cases, this is only just and fair, as men, also, have a legitimate stake in the reproductive process. However, in other cases, the continuation of
male prerogative is subtly but discernibly still present. This is particularly true in regards to Islamic countries, as well as other countries in which a religious viewpoint plays a pivotal
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