Once backed primarily by anti-abortion activists, fetal rights claims are now promoted by a wide range of interest groups in American society. Government and co

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many private employers in the United States enacted fetal protection policies that barred fertile women--that is, wo

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical research

As much a model for future research as a study of the status of the fetus, this book offers an examination of one of the most divisive and complex issues of Ame

Argues that abortion is a common part of a woman's reproductive life and should not be vilified, but instead accepted as a moral right that can be a force for s