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Women’s right to bodily autonomy: Japan needs to think again
The petitioners’ lawyer argued that the Act smacks of “excessive paternalism" in assuming that “a woman’s body is destined to become a mother," denying them the right to “live a life of their choice." This Japanese law, a revised version of …