There are clear parallels between that situation and the way in which the common law has offered little redress to patients who have tried to claim property rights in tissue taken from them, or to activists seeking to limit the powers of Big Biotech over human genetic patents. All bodies are assumed to be “open access” now, just as women’s have always been.
这种情形和习惯法为那些对从其身体上取下的组织主张所有权的病人或者寻求限制生物技术巨头的人类基因专利的行动主义者提供的可怜的法律救济之间，存在着明显的相似性。现在，所有的身体都被认为可以“公开取得”，就像一直以来女人的身体那样。