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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

    Noel Sharkey and others in the disability studies literature argue that framing societal attitudes as 'constraints' on reproductive choice risks paternalistic reframing of women's authentic, voluntary decisions as coerced outcomes.

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    Authentic, voluntary decisions(the kind of reproductive choices women should be able to make)
    Choices that genuinely come from a person's own values and free will, without outside pressure or manipulation.
    Coerced outcomes(what happens when societal pressure prevents genuine choice)
    Results that happen because someone was forced, pressured, or manipulated—not because they freely chose them.
    Disability studies(the scholarly framework Sharkey works within)
    An academic field that examines how society treats people with disabilities, focusing on social barriers and attitudes rather than just medical conditions.
    Noel Sharkey(cited as an authority on disability studies and reproductive ethics)
    A researcher and ethicist who studies disability rights and the ethical implications of technology and medical decisions.

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    framing(Used within behavioral game theory to describe experimentally-derived deviations from standard rational-agent assumptions)
    Ways in which people differ from purely economic agents in the inferences they draw from information
    paternalistic(as a type of government intervention)
    When a government or authority figure makes decisions for people 'for their own good,' treating adults like children who can't make wise choices for themselves.

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