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19 - Impediments, Challenges, and Hurdles for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons Seeking Reproductive Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

By
Petra De Sutter
Edited by
Botros Rizk  and
Jan Gerris
Botros Rizk
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama
Jan Gerris
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Complications and Outcomes of Assisted Reproduction , pp. 195 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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