Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault: Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box

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Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault : Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box . / Petersen, Annika Frida.

In: Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022, p. 389-406.

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Harvard

Petersen, AF 2022, 'Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault: Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box ', Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2094131

APA

Petersen, A. F. (2022). Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault: Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box . Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 40(2), 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2094131

Vancouver

Petersen AF. Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault: Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box . Nordic Journal of Human Rights. 2022;40(2):389-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2094131

Author

Petersen, Annika Frida. / Accessing Late-Term Abortion Following Sexual Assault : Looking Inside the Danish Legal Black Box . In: Nordic Journal of Human Rights. 2022 ; Vol. 40, No. 2. pp. 389-406.

Bibtex

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