Birth Rights and Wrongs

This book lifts the curtain on reproductive negligence, gives voice to the lives it upends, and vindicates the interests that advances in medicine and technology bring to full expression. It charts the legal universe of errors that: deprive pregnancy or parenthood of people who set out to pursue them; impose pregnancy or parenthood on those who tried to avoid these roles; or confound efforts to have a child with or without certain genetic traits.

Dov Fox is Professor of Law and Herzog Endowed Scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he directs the Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Harvard College, Yale Law School, and the University of Oxford, where he received a doctorate in political philosophy. His NIH-funded research on translational medicine, genomic privacy, and the regulation of biotechnology has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Today Show.

- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. REPRODUCTIVE FRONTIERS
- Chapter 1. "Basic Civil Rights"
- Chapter 2. Missing Protections
- Chapter 3. Litigation's Limits
- II. THE PRICE OF ACCIDENTS
- Chapter 4. Elusive Injuries
- Chapter 5. Courthouse Claims
- Chapter 6. Damage Awards
- III. TO ERR IS TOO HUMAN
- Chapter 7. Procreation Deprived
- Chapter 8. Procreation Imposed
- Chapter 9. Procreation Confounded
- Chapter 10. Fraught Remedies
- Conclusion