Vasectomies are legal — even in Queensland
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- legal medicine
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 146 (2) , 84-87
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1987.tb136269.x
Abstract
Consent by patients to voluntary sterilization frees surgeons from criminal responsibility for assault when such consent is given freely with the knowledge of the purpose and consequence of the proce...Keywords
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