Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In his 2019 book, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, Dov Fox offers a compelling argument for new torts allowing recovery for wrongful reproduction. These torts would include three sorts of cases, those where wrongdoing (whether negligent, reckless, or intentional) caused undesired reproduction; stymied desired reproduction; or confounded reproduction, causing birth of a child different than that intended by the parents. The likely defendants in these torts are gynecologists, urologists, sperm banks, and IVF clinics.
Recommended Citation
Christopher Robertson,
Is Tort Law the Tool for Fixing Reproductive Wrongs?
,
in
100
Boston University Law Review Online
143
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3559
Comments
From the BU Law Review online symposium: Dov Fox, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (2019)