Stillbirth and the LawEach 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. |
Contents
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Primitive Data Collection | 30 |
Standards of Care and Malpractice | 47 |
Valuing Stillborn Babies | 83 |
Blindsiding Parents | 104 |
Reproductive Justice and Stillbirth | 121 |
That First Breath | 139 |
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