Stillbirth and the Law
eBook - ePub

Stillbirth and the Law

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stillbirth and the Law

About this book

Each year in the United States, about 1 in 170 births is a stillbirth, a rate that has remained stagnant for most of this century even as other high-income countries have dramatically reduced their already lower rates. Jill Wieber Lens, the nation's foremost expert on stillbirth and the law, blends personal experience and legal analysis to bring us an original, essential guide to this all-too-often unrecognized public health crisis. By exposing how the law inhibits prevention, affects the experience of stillbirth for birthing parents, and shapes broader notions of unborn life, Lens argues for a series of pragmatic, data-driven changes to the legal landscape that could enjoy broad popular support and strengthen reproductive justice and reproductive rights.

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Information

Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Caleb
  7. 1. Missing Out on Cause-of-Death Data
  8. 2. Primitive Data Collection
  9. 3. Standards of Care and Malpractice
  10. 4. Valuing Stillborn Babies
  11. 5. Blindsiding Parents
  12. 6. Reproductive Justice and Stillbirth
  13. 7. That First Breath
  14. 8. Abortion and Stillbirth
  15. 9. Stillbirth as a Crime
  16. Conclusion: Genuine (and Forced) Optimism for the Future
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index