The Troubled Pregnancy: Legal Wrongs and Rights in Reproduction.

• Position: Brief article - Book review

Mason, J. K. The Troubled Pregnancy: Legal Wrongs and Rights in Reproduction. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; www.cambridge.org.

The author looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy that require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unplanned pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the U.K. Abortion Act 1967, s. l(1)(d), and the related action for so-called wrongful birth due to faulty ante-natal care. The unexpected birth of a healthy child resulting from failed sterilization is approached through an analysis of the seminal U.K. case of McFarlane and associated cases involving disability in either the neonate or the mother. The disabled neonate's...