まずはこれを載せておけばよかったわけだ……と気づいたので、論文要旨を紹介します。今日は英文のabstract。（論点が明快になったところもあれば、ビミョ〜に意味合いのズレを感じるところも若干ありますが。）日本語のほうも追って掲載しようと思います。
Abstract
In the twentieth century, the remarkable development of reproductive control technologies including contraception and abortion has enabled women to control their reproductive capabilities. Such advancement, however, has been strangely neglected by Japanese critics. In this paper I wish to demonstrate that this gap could be explained from the lack of reproductive options available in Japan.
The first part of the paper illuminates the present international consensus of reproductive rights in terms of technology, policy-making and ethical considerations. As a result of technological development in tandem with calls for women’s rights, the global community has recognized reproductive rights as a human right in the 1990s.
The second part deals with the problem of disregard to women’s reproductive health and rights among Japanese. Evidence reveals that Japanese couples’ methods of reproductive control are technically limited. Such technological lags together with ultrasounds, which humanizes the fetuses, reinforce the fetus-centered view and further stigmatize abortion, jeopardizing the commitment to women’s rights.
I have concluded that obstructions of reproductive control technologies which compound the ethical dilemmas should be replaced with the refined evidence-based methods such as medical abortion using RU486, thus releasing women from excessive guilt, and in so doing, empowering them to be in control of their reproductive life.(from "Reproductive Rights in Technology" by K. Tsukahara, 2009.)
