Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, N.Y., 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-103) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2001. Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-164). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71579.

This thesis investigates Australian and Canadian legislation that regulated women's reproduction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and offers some explanation for their enactment. At the turn of the twentieth century, Australia and Canada enacted a series of laws that were aimed at limiting the control women could exercise over their reproductive functions. From the 1880s through to the first decade of the twentieth century, legislation that prohibited the advertisement of contraception, regulated maternity homes as well as criminal laws that proscribed abortion were promulgated by Australian and Canadian parliaments. This thesis investigates why such legislative activity occurred and proposes that the initiation of these measures targeting abortion, infanticide and birth control cannot be disassociated from the highly gendered and racialised rhetoric resonating throughout the British Empire. Concern about racial integrity, heightened by a fear generated by the declining birth rate, promoted a climate in which exercising control over women's fertility was seen as warranted. White women's reproductive capabilities were a vital ingredient in keeping the settler colonies of Australia and Canada white and British — white women were expected, quite literally, to give birth to the nation. As this thesis shows, when women did not adhere to these expectations of maternity, the law was used in an attempt to monitor and regulate their reproductive activities.

This work examines the series of cases known as the 'wrongful birth' cases, that is those in which a physician or surgeon has been sued by the parent or parents of a child on the basis of his negligence either in the provision of a family planning procedure or in the advice and information he gives regarding that procedure, as a result of which a child is born that would not have been born but for that negligence. The reported and unreported cases from the English courts are analysed, and a number of North American cases are referred to also, this in order to predict how the Scottish courts will or should deal with claims for wrongful birth. The thesis is written from the point of view of Scots law, and the English cases, though important, are not determinative. I have attempted to state the law of Scotland as it stands on 29th February 1988.

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Thesis (M.A.)--St. John's College, 1973. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-56).

Thesis (LL. M.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2004.

Thesis (DR. P.H.)--University of Michigan.

Thesis (M.A.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-176). Also available via the Internet.