This book examines the controversial and increasingly complex policy issues surrounding reproduction today. Blank and Merrick argue that medical advances, changing social values, and novel legal cases are challenging conventional notions of reproductive rights, and creating difficult public policy dilemmas.

This exciting volume focuses on the conflicts surrounding reproduction and reproductive rights. Restricted access to abortion, rights of surrogate and biological mothers, the right to control fertility, fetal and embryo research, and a pregnant woman's duty to avoid risk are among the timely issues explored in this book. Conflicts in the maternal-fetal relationship, such as court-ordered intervention, maternal substance abuse, and workplace hazards are also covered.

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1. Reproductive Rights: Ethical and Policy Context
The Concept of Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights in the United States
Constraints on State Intervention in Defining Responsible Parenthood
Limitations on Parental Choice in Procreation
Reproductive Rights and the Policy Process
Conclusion

2. Abortion: Private Choices, Public Actions 
Abortion in the United States Today
Abortion: Whose Rights and Whose Responsibilities?
Abortion in the Nineteenth Century
The Abortion Controversy Moves to the Courts: Roe v. Wade
The Political Response to Roe
Abortion in the 1990s
Conclusion

3. The Right to Control Fertility:Sterilization and Contraception 
Fertility Control Trends in the United States
Reversible Long-Term Fertility Control Techniques 
Voluntary Sterilization: The Legal Context 
Involuntary or Nonconsensual Sterilization: The Continuing Controversy 
Federal Government Involvement in Sterilization 
State Legislative Action 
Judicial Action on Nonconsensual Sterilization 
Conclusion 

4. Assisted Reproduction:Expanding the Right to Have Children 
Reproduction-Assisting Technologies 
The Commercialization of Assisted Reproduction 
Regulating Reproduction-Assisting Technologies
Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Rights 
The Children of Technology-Assisted Reproduction
Reproduction-Assisting Technologies and Women's Rights 
Access to Assisted Reproduction
Conclusion

5. Surrogate Motherhood: Redefining the Family 
Surrogates and Couples: Who and Why?
Conflicting Rights
Social Impact of Surrogacy
Surrogacy and the Law 
Conclusion 

6. Prenatal Intervention: Choosing the Characteristics of Unborn Children 
Prenatal Diagnosis
Preselection of Sex 
Policy Issues Raised by Prenatal Diagnosis 
Fetal Surgery
The Study of Human Genes
Conclusion 

7. Conflict in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship 
Ethical Considerations during Pregnancy 
Court-Ordered Obstetrical Intervention 
Maternal Substance Abuse during Pregnancy 
Protection of the Fetus in the Workplace 
Conclusion

8. Issues in Fetal and Embryo Research 
Types of Fetal and Embryo Research
Neural Grafting Research 
The Politics of Fetal Research
The Controversy over Fetal Tissue Transplantation
Fetal Research and Abortion
The Impact of Governmental Limits on Funding Fetal Research
Conclusion

9. Reproductive Rights and Neonatal Care
Developing the Policy Agenda for Critically Ill Newborns
Government Regulations and the Critically Ill Newborn
The 1984 Child Abuse Amendments
Conclusion

10. Changing Reproductive Rights:Technology and Policy
Redefining the Concept of Reproductive Rights 
Government Involvement in Human Reproduction
Reproductive Rights: A Reevaluation
The Future of Reproductive Technologies 
Regulating the Application of Reproductive Technologies 
Conclusion

Bibliography
Table of Court Cases
Index

"Nowhere have I seen such a comprehensive examination of issues and problems related to reproduction."