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  1. As Susan Moller Okin argues in [9, pp. 25–40].

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Markowitz, S. Personhood, pregnancy, and gender: a reply to Hershenov and Hershenov. Theor Med Bioeth 38, 411–415 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-017-9420-1

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