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Why it is unethical to charge migrant women for pregnancy care in the National Health Service
- Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9PX, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk
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Why it is unethical to charge migrant women for pregnancy care in the National Health Service
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- Received October 23, 2018
- Revised February 5, 2019
- Accepted March 11, 2019
- First published April 25, 2019.
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August 27, 2019
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