Reproductive Technologies: Does Choice Mean Freedom?

By David Kinlough


"One does not, it might be said, increase a person's freedom simply by
increasing the sheer quantity of possibilities which he or she can choose from."
n Richard Norman

The issue of reproductive technologies in our society today raises an
interesting question. Do they increase a women's freedom of choice or do they
expand the power of men and science over women. Is freedom to choose what they
can do with their bodies truly freedom. Freedom, as a core, is the absence of
external impediment. In this sort of area can women truly be free of external
impediment, also is this truly freedom of choice? "The range of physical
possibilities from which a person can choose at a given moment has no direct
relevance to freedom…Whether a person is free or not does not depend on the
range of choice." (Haylek 1960, p.12f). This subject is so socially charged
that a women could not possibly have true freedom of......

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