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Legal Rights And Issues Surrounding Conception, Pregnancy, And Birth, Hutton Brown, Miriam Dent, L. Mark Dyer, Cherie Fuzzell, Anita Gifford, Sam Griffin, A. G. Kasselberg M.D., Jayne Workman, Melinda Cooper

Vanderbilt Law Review

Advances in medicine are reported almost daily in the media. Medical researchers have developed and are continuing to develop new methods of creating, saving, and prolonging life. This Special Project examines the impact that rapidly advancing medical technology has on the law governing conception, pregnancy, and birth.

Although medical techniques have advanced rapidly during the past decades, state and federal legislatures have responded in-adequately to the legal consequences of these new birth technologies. The resulting lag between technology and the law has forced courts to confront new situations that do not fit neatly into the statutory framework created to deal …