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

Presents divergent viewpoints on the legal rights of unborn children.

Some say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas - or, recent cases suggest, battlefields: A

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

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