Harm Paradox

<p>Offering the first comprehensive theoretical engagement with actions for wrongful conception and birth The <em>Harm Paradox</em> provides readers with an insightful critique into the concepts of choice responsibility and personhood. </p><p>Raising fundamental questions relating to birth abortion family planning and disability Priaulx challenges the law’s response that enforced parenthood is a harmless outcome and examines the concept of autonomy gender and women’s reproductive freedom. </p><p>It explores a wealth of questions including:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Can a healthy child resulting from negligence in family planning procedures constitute ‘harm’ sounding in damages when so many see its birth as a blessing?</li> <li>Can a pregnancy constitute an ‘injury’ when many women choose that very event?</li> <li>Are parents really harmed when they choose to keep their much loved but ‘unwanted child’?</li> <li>Why don’t women seek an abortion if the consequences of pregnancy are seen as harmful?</li> </ul><p>An exciting and original contribution to the fields of medical law and ethics tort law and feminist jurisprudence this is an excellent resource for both students and practitioners.</p>