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    Challenges→A woman's reproductive autonomy in bearing a child likely to have a disease or disability is constrained in practice despite formal legal freedom

    If every socially influenced decision is recharacterized as constrained, reproductive autonomy loses descriptive precision and becomes unfalsifiable as a claim about practical freedom.

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    Reproductive autonomy
    Women's control over their own bodies in matters of reproduction, treated by feminists as a precondition for free and equal citizenship
    Unfalsifiable(describes the main problem with the hypothesis)
    A statement or theory that's impossible to prove wrong because it's designed in a way that any evidence against it can be reinterpreted to support it instead.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)
    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    constrained(in philosophy of free will and autonomy)
    Limited or restricted in your ability to make free choices; having your options or freedom reduced by forces beyond your control.
    descriptive precision(as used in philosophy of language and epistemology)

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    The ability of a definition or theory to accurately describe what's actually happening in the real world, without being vague or unclear.
    practical freedom(as used in philosophy of action and ethics)
    The real, observable ability to act according to your own choices in daily life, not just in theory.
    socially influenced(as used in social philosophy)
    Shaped or affected by the society, culture, or people around you—like how your friends' opinions might sway what you want to do.

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