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Book SynopsisAddresses some of the pressing moral and legal quandaries in contemporary society - those revolving around human reproduction. This work focuses on issues beyond abortion and reproductive technologies, bringing together such themes as surrogacy, adoption, and infertility; frozen embryos and 'fathers' rights'; RU 486; and, fetal harm.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Editors's Preface: Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives
Part I: Reconsidering Parenthood
Introduction
1. Adoption as a Feminist Alternative to Reproductive Technology — Joan Mahoney
2. Feminist Perspectives and Gestational Motherhood: The Search for a Unified Legal
Focus — Rosemarie Tong
3. Listening to the Voices of the Infertile — Barbara J. Berg
4. The Metamorphosis of Motherhood — Patricia Smith
Part II: Prenatal and Postnatal Authority
Introduction
5. Choosing Children's Sex: Challenges to Feminism — Helen B. Holmes
6. Frozen Embryos and "Fathers' Rights": Parenthood and Decision-Making in the Cryopreservation
of Embryos — Christine Overall
7. As If There Were Fetuses Without Women: A Remedial Essay — Mary B. Mahowald
8. Fathers' Rights, Mothers' Wrongs?: Reflections on Unwed Fathers' Rights, Patriarchy, and Sex
Equality — Mary L. Shanley
Part III: Electing and Preventing Birth
Introduction
9. Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Lethal Injection in Late Abortion — Joan C. Callahan
10. RU 486: Progress or Peril? — Janice G. Raymond
11. Loving Future People — Laura M. Purdy
Part IV: Prenatal and Preconceptive Harm
12. Collective Bad Faith: "Protecting" the Fetus — Janet Gallagher
13. A Womb of One's Own — Joan E. Bertin
14. The Discriminatory Nature of Industrial Health-Hazard Policies and Some Implication for Third-World
Women Workers — Uma Narayan
Contributors
Index
