ABSTRACT
While ethical experts discuss whether the fetus should be seen as a patient, which would come along with certain duties on the side of physicians, popular media has already found another answer and locates the duties solely on the side of the pregnant woman.
This chapter argues that popular representations of the fetus can be understood as a snapshot of a process of normalisation that tries to establish a new understanding of reproductive autonomy that pretends to respect the freedom of decision making, but has actually lost its feminist content of an autonomous female body.
