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Journal articles on the topic "Motherhood by choice"

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Reeves, Kathleen. "From Choice to Possibility in Sheila Heti’s Motherhood." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 79, no. 3 (2023): 73–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2023.a909148.

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Abstract: Sheila Heti's 2018 novel, Motherhood, reorients the question of motherhood around possibility rather than choice. Misread by some critics as a memoir about the decision not to have a child, the novel instead emphasizes openness, chance, and change in order to articulate a form of freedom that is tied to indeterminacy rather than sovereignty. The novel points to the limitations of narratives of choice, suggesting instead that women’s experiences around reproduction await further description. Motherhood is thus engaged in the kind of project called for by the feminist philosopher Luce

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Rowland, Robyn. "Technology and Motherhood: Reproductive Choice Reconsidered." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12, no. 3 (1987): 512–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494342.

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Kricheli-Katz, Tamar. "Choice, Discrimination, and the Motherhood Penalty." Law & Society Review 46, no. 3 (2012): 557–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00506.x.

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Namita S Malik, Smita Gupta ,. "Prioritising Or Postponing?” Thematic Analysis Of Reproductive And Motherhood Choices Among Educated Indian Married Women." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 2 (2021): 5784–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i2.3006.

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This paper attempts to understand and explains the intersection of reproductive and motherhood choices among educated working and non-working married women in India. The choices women pick in realm of sociological, cultural and religious controls have been largely silenced in literature. This phenomenological study looks into lives of 20 married educated Indian women and their reproductive and motherhood choices. With the help of semi-structured questionnaire, 20 women, predominantly educated middle class women, have been interviewed. A thematic analysis using a grounded approach has bee

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Dor, Asnat. "Single Motherhood by Choice: Difficulties and Advantages." Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology 11, no. 1 (2021): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jedp.v11n1p18.

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This qualitative phenomenological study focuses on the advantages and difficulties encountered by 20 single mothers by choice (SMC). Research has addressed the difficulties that single mothers face, and the present study will discuss these, as well as the advantages that SMC see in this family structure. The research tool was semi-structured in-depth, non-directive interviews. Findings revealed that the difficulties SMCs face are similar to those faced by women who are single mothers due to life circumstances. The fact that they are solely responsible for their child/ren is a source of emotion

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Glazer, Deborah. "Lesbian motherhood: Restorative choice or developmental imperative?" Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 4, no. 3 (2001): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2001.9962251.

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Mayhew, Peter J. "Herbivore host choice and optimal bad motherhood." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16, no. 4 (2001): 165–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(00)02099-1.

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Potter, Ann E., and Patricia K. Knaub. "Single motherhood by choice: A parenting alternative." Lifestyles Family and Economic Issues 9, no. 3 (1988): 240–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00988935.

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Davies, Linda, and Prue Rains. "Single Mothers by Choice?" Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 76, no. 9 (1995): 543–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949507600904.

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The authors conducted exploratory interviews with eight older single mothers. Results suggested that current media representations of “single mothers by choice” may oversimplify the experiences of many women by ignoring the context of gender relations within which both women and men's decisions regarding contraception, pregnancy, and parenthood “produce” single motherhood.

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Hilton, Michael Goodwin. "Choice." After Dinner Conversation 5, no. 3 (2024): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20245325.

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What inalienable rights belong to those with intellectual disabilities? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Ellen, who has Down syndrome, overhears her older siblings, and caretakers, talking about her. They are discussing her recent pregnancy, and the suicide of the person they believe coerced her into sex, or raped her. While Ellen doesn’t understand everything they are talking about, she understands there is a life growing inside her, and they are debating if they should have her keep it, abort it, or give it up for adoption. They believe, if Ellen keeps the child, she will b

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Motherhood by choice"

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Hoogen, Siri Rebecca. "Contexts of choice: Personal constructs of motherhood in women's abortion decisions." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1292364393.

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O'Neill, Helen. "Transforming transitions : the performance of motherhood and the school choice process." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3776/.

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Giving parents a choice regarding which schools educate their children has been central to the discourse of school choice in England for many years. This choice and the capacity to make it has implications for all concerned. However, little research has been done on the impact this choice, and the transition has on the way that women perform motherhood during this time. This study aimed to investigate and understand the effect of the school choice process on the mothers of children undergoing this transition and the ways they perform motherhood. Carried out in a small, rural area in East Angli

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Sponiar, Martine Claire. "The motherhood choice development of a decision aid for women with multiple sclerosis /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2246.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008.<br>Title from title screen (viewed on April, 7, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Bibliography: leaves 148-164. Also issued in print.

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Abshoff, Kimberly. "Untying the parent knot : (re)conceiving intentional childlessness." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343109.

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SPONIAR, MARTINE CLAIRE. "THE MOTHERHOOD CHOICE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A DECISION AID FOR WOMEN WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2246.

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults. MS affects approximately 1 in 1000 people and, like other autoimmune diseases, women are more likely to be affected than men. The illness typically onsets between the ages of 20 and 40, and hence usually affects women of child-bearing age. The course of the MS is often unclear for years after diagnosis and since most women are diagnosed in their child-bearing years, they often have to make reproductive choices before their prognosis is clear and while the future remains uncertain. For women with MS, startin

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SPONIAR, MARTINE CLAIRE. "THE MOTHERHOOD CHOICE: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A DECISION AID FOR WOMEN WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2246.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults. MS affects approximately 1 in 1000 people and, like other autoimmune diseases, women are more likely to be affected than men. The illness typically onsets between the ages of 20 and 40, and hence usually affects women of child-bearing age. The course of the MS is often unclear for years after diagnosis and since most women are diagnosed in their child-bearing years, they often have to make reproductive choices before their prognosis is clear and while the future remains uncertain. Fo

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Hirsi, Alasa Osman. "Factors influencing the choice of place of child delivery among women in Garissa district, Kenya." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5288.

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Magister Public Health - MPH<br>Although the Kenyan government implemented safe motherhood programme two decades ago, available data indicate that prevalence of home delivery is still high among women in Garissa District. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the factors influencing the choice of place of childbirth. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 224 women who delivered babies two years prior to December 2010. Using a statcalc program in Epi Info 3.3.2, with expected frequency of home delivery at 83% +5% and a 95% confidence level, the calcula

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Lindberg, Josefine, and Josefin Schröder. "Bra lön eller barn? : En studie av hur kvinnors lön påverkas av föräldraskap." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169134.

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Sammanfattning Kvinnors ekonomiska förutsättningar har förbättrats enormt de senaste decennierna, men än idag råder det skillnader i lön mellan kvinnor och män. Många tror att denna skillnad beror på att kvinnor väljer att fokusera på familjelivet då de får barn. Om det faktum att kvinnor får barn faktiskt leder till dessa löneskillnader, så innebär det inte bara att män och kvinnor har olika lön, men också att kvinnor som har barn och kvinnor som inte har barn har olika lön. Detta är studiens syfte, alltså att undersöka om en kvinnas lön påverkas negativt av att hon får barn. För att kontroll

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Geen, Julie Hutchison. "The Pie Redemption Theory/When the Flood Comes How Will You Choose." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5541.

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Abstract THE PIE REDEMPTION THEORY/WHEN THE FLOOD COMES HOW WILL YOU CHOOSE By Julie Hutchison Geen, MFA A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, dual genre at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University July 2018 Director: Tom De Haven, Professor of Creative Writing, English Department The following document is the first 144 pages of a novel developed over the past three years at Virginia Commonwealth University. It is a dark comedy exploring the complexities of modern motherhood and marriage.

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Papadopoulos, Airia S. "Do All “Good Mothers” Breastfeed? How African American Mothers’ Values and Experiences of Early Motherhood Influence Their Infant Feeding Choices." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7348.

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The food an infant is fed can reflect many things: a source of nutrition, the social and cultural circumstances into which an infant is born, or even a family’s beliefs about the body and breast milk as a source of nutrition. Exclusive breastfeeding, currently the gold standard for infant feeding in the United States (US), is often identified as an expectation in discourses on being a “good mother.” African American mothers in particular are the least likely group in the US to breastfeed in any capacity and many efforts are underway to increase the breastfeeding rates of this population. Thi

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Books on the topic "Motherhood by choice"

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Walter, Carolyn Ambler. The timing of motherhood. D.C. Heath, 1986.

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López, Rocío Quintal. Maternidad: El derecho a elegir : significados y experiencias de mujeres mexicanas que eligieron "NO SER MADRES". Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2018.

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Shapiro, Jean. A child: Your choice : a candid, everyday account of the pleasures and pitfalls of motherhood. Pandora, 1987.

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Penny, Halsall. Giselle's choice. Harlequin, 2011.

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Spain, Armelle. Le " timing" de la première maternité: Recension des écrits. Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe, Université Laval, 1987.

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Pies, Cheri. Considering parenthood: A workbook for lesbians. Spinsters Ink, 1985.

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Huston, Perdita. Motherhood by choice: Pioneers in women's health and family planning. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1992.

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Sharon, Tabberer, and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, eds. Teenage pregnancy and choice: Abortion or motherhood ; influences on the decision. York Pub., 2000.

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1934-, Arditti Rita, Klein Renate 1945-, and Minden Shelley, eds. Test-tube women: What future for motherhood? Pandora Press, 1989.

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Richards, Emilie. Sister's choice. Mira, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Motherhood by choice"

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Komporaly, Jozefina. "Irreversible Choice: Female Professional Success." In Staging Motherhood. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230598485_3.

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Manninen, Bertha Alvarez. "Pro-Choice Philosopher Has Baby." In Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444324525.ch3.

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Jamal Al-deen, Taghreed. "School Choice—Not Only Shaped by Class." In Motherhood, Education and Migration. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9429-5_7.

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Prilleltensky, Ora. "Reproductive Choice and Motherhood in the Context of Physical Disability." In Motherhood and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230512764_4.

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Prilleltensky, Ora. "To Have or Not to Have: Motherhood, Disability, and Choice." In Motherhood and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230512764_7.

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Temkina, Anna, and Elena Zdravomyslova. "Responsible Motherhood, Practices of Reproductive Choice and Class Construction in Contemporary Russia." In Gender and Choice after Socialism. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7_7.

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Woods, Orlagh. "Choosing Childlessness: Familial and National Acts of Resistance in Preti Taneja’s We That Are Young (2017)." In Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_10.

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AbstractJasodhara Bagchi underscores the pervasiveness of motherhood in contemporary Indian culture: “Feminist understanding of motherhood has been central to the unfolding of Indian society from the moment of insertion into the global capitalist system through the colonizing process to the present day when it is directly under the thumb of a market-driven neo-liberal regime of globalization” (xxvi). Preti Taneja’s 2017 adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, entitled We That Are Young, confronts this hegemonic mode of motherhood and the way(s) it is culturally and religiously reified in contem

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Thomson, Rachel. "Expectations and Realities: Motherhood and the Female ‘Choice’ Biography." In Understanding Families Over Time. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137285089_6.

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Carbayo-Abengózar, Mercedes. "Voluntary Childlessness in the Spanish Graphic Novel: Irene Olmo’s No quiero ser mamá (2020)." In Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66697-1_11.

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AbstractIn recent years, graphic narratives about journeys into motherhood and the maternal experience have populated the Spanish market. These narratives appear alongside other forms of creative exploration of motherhood like mom blogs, maternal chronicles, novels, and films. However, the issue of non-motherhood is still under-explored across all genres. No quiero ser mamá is a graphic novel that explores the process of deciding not to be a mother. The novel is innovative in the way that it presents the process as a subjective experience, drawing attention to the specific conjunctions of visu

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Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth. "The Post-career Mom: Reproductive Technology and the Promise of Reproductive Choice." In The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies. Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4_10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Motherhood by choice"

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Angelova-Igova, Boryana, and Ivan Slavchev. "SOME GENDER ISSUES AROUND SPORTS OFFICIALS IN THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN SOCIETY." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS “APPLIED SPORTS SCIENCES”. Scientific Publishing House NSA Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37393/icass2022/73.

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ABSTRACT Sport is a mirror of the culture in which it develops, therefore analyzing the problems and trends in sport we have the opportunity to see a simplified model of society itself. The subject of our study is to understand how much our society is a subject of a gender stereotypes and to which extent contemporary women and men are free to express themselves in any public sphere of their choice. The case with sports officials sheds light on this problem. In the period May 2021 - January 2022, we conducted a study, within the international project Raising the growth and participation of fema

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Routray, Sushree. "The Killjoy Mother: Navigating the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9039.

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Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar (2020) narrates the story of a mother who disrupts the hegemonic discourse of motherhood by refusing to abnegate her desires for the sake of her child completely. This decision has significant ramifications for the daughter, who grapples with an ontological crisis and feelings of estrangement as she internalises patriarchal ideologies and grapples with her mother's humanity. The novel conceives of motherhood as a liminal space in which women must confront and negotiate the boundaries between their own subjectivities and their obligations to their children. Through an a

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Linardi, Noemi. "Motherland, Holy Mother, “Mother Courage”: the Representation of Motherhood in Contexts of Armed Violence." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2025. https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.4.9037.

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The purpose of this paper is to question the massive presence of the motherhood motif in fictional literary production concerning female armed combat, and especially the recurrence of an archetypal pattern that we will call the “Mother Courage” pattern. After introducing the history of this expression and its different meanings, from Brecht’s play to modern press, we will analyze the construction of the “Mother courage”, or the brave mother, in the literature about female participation in armed combat. So, using the examples of the protagonists of the novella Umm Sa‘d (1969), by the Palesti

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Pinheiro, Joana Angélica Marques, Marília Ximenes Freitas Frota, Virna Ribeiro Cestari, and Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira. "Health literacy: Creation of an educational video about the postoperative period of pediatric cardiac surgery." In VI Seven International Multidisciplinary Congress. Seven Congress, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.56238/sevenvimulti2024-057.

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OBJECTIVE: To describe the process of developing educational health technology aimed at mothers of babies recovering from pediatric heart surgery. METHOD: This is a methodological study consisting of the following phases: (1) Integrative review of the technology to be developed; (2) Situational diagnosis to obtain content of greater maternal demand; (3) Production of the video after validation of the content by expert judges. RESULT: After the integrative review and situational diagnosis, the type of technology and content to be addressed were defined, followed by validation and subsequent cre

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Nagy, Zsófia. "Comparison of Surrogacy laws of Austria, Slovakia and Ukraine." In Naděje právní vědy 2022. University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/zcu.nadeje.2022.421-431.

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Assisted reproductive technology has introduced a large scope of medical solutions for infertile couples to found a family, however surrogacy seems to be the most debated, as it triggers many ethical and legal questions. The multicolor of legal reactions to this sensitive issue can be represented through the legislation of the three countries in the Central European region, despite the decision making ot the ECtHR and the continuously ongoing europeanization and unification of law in Europe. However, in this regard, the domestic legislation enjoys prime attention and significance, because the

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