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1 Can. J. Women & L. 456 (1985-1986)
Fetal Rights and Maternal Rights: Is There a Conflict

handle is hein.journals/cajwol1 and id is 476 raw text is: 456 Rodgers Fetal Rights and Maternal Rights: Is There a Conflict? '- 1986 by Sanda Rodgers L'auteur s'intresse 4 la tendance qui se d6gage dans la jurisprudence amricaine et canadienne 4 donnerprdsance, en mati~re de thdrapiefoetale, aumv droits prdsums du foetus sur le droit de refus de la mare. Elle analyse les agnents enoncis par les auteurs qui s'ldvent contre la reconnaissance de droits auxv foetus dans un tel contexte, en relation avec la ldgislation sur l'avortenent, le concept du consentement dclaird, I'action en dommages pout enfant non dedsird (wrongful birth) et les interventions de I'Etat en natire de protection de enfance. Elle arrive e la conclusion qu'une intervention dtatique serait ici inefficace et inappropriee. There is a clear and unsettling trend toward recognizing legal rights of the unborn fetus in both United States' and Canadian case law2 and in the recent work of legal and medical scholars.3 It is obvious that claims on behalf of the fetus, within or 1. seeJefferson v. Griffin Spalding County Hospital Authority, 274 S.E.2d 457 (1981) (judge ordered cesarean section and temporary custody of unborn child); Taft v. Taft, 446 N.E.2d 395 (1983) (refusal to order purse string operation designed to hold pregnancy); Raleigh Fitkin-Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital v. Anderson, 201 A.2d 537 (1964) (judge ordered blood transfusion to be given to pregnant mother despite religious objections). Two other unreported cases involving involuntary cesarean sections are referred to in George Annas, Forced Cesareans: The Most Unkindest Cut of All, Hastings COnter Report 12 (1982) 3: 16. 2. See Re Children's Aid Society for the District of Kenora and J. L. (1981), 134 D.L.R. (3d) 249 (unbom child is child in need of protection within the Child Welfare Act); Re Superintendent of Family and Child Services and McDonald (1982), 135 D.L.R. (3d) 330 (unborn child can be abused during gestation period); Re Simrnms and H. (1979), 106 D.L.R. (3d) 435 (guardian ad item appointed on behalf of H, an unborn child allegedly of 18 weeks gestation). The implications of thew cases are discussed in sections III and IV of this essay. 3. Ste Edward W. Keyserlingk, The Unborn Cbild's Right to Prenatal Care (Montreal: McGill Legal Studies, Centre de Recherche en Droit PrivC et Compard du QuCbec, 1984); Edward W. Keyserlingk, The Unborn Child's Right to Prenatal Care (Parts 1 and 2), Health Law in Canada 3 (1982): 10, 3 (1982): 31; W.W. Walters, M. Cohen, D. Carr, andJ. Askwith, Response to Edward W. Keyserlingk's Article, Health Law in Canada 4 (1983): 32; see also John Robertson, Procreative Lixty and the Control of Conception, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Virginia Law Revieu 69 (1983): 405, 437, 445: Once she decides to forego abortion and the state chooses to CJWL/Rjfd

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