Citation

De Ville KA, Kopelman LM. J. Law Med. Ethics 1999; 27(4): 332-42, 294.

Affiliation

Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11067615

Abstract

Authors examine Wisconsin's recent revision of its child abuse and protection laws to address substance abuse by pregnant women. The new statute enables the state to take the fetus into protective custody. Authors argue that approaching fetal protection using a child abuse model creates a series of symbolic, conceptual, and practical problems of such severity as to undermine its justifiability as a public health measure.

Language: en