Stillbirth and the Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lens, Jill Wieber.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Caleb

1. Missing Out on Cause-of-Death Data

2. Primitive Data Collection

3. Standards of Care and Malpractice

4. Valuing Stillborn Babies

5. Blindsiding Parents

6. Reproductive Justice and Stillbirth

7. That First Breath

8. Abortion and Stillbirth

9. Stillbirth as a Crime

Conclusion: Genuine (and Forced) Optimism for the Future

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520393592

0520393597

OCLC:

1485002250