title: Legal Change and Stigma in Surrogacy and Abortion.
abstract: Stigma marks both surrogacy and abortion. Legal change lessens stigma but may not remove it altogether. Post-legalization regulation may reinstall stigma by surrounding a legalized practice with barriers that make exercise of that right more difficult. As a result, law may reenact stigma even as it purports to take it away.
authors.affiliation: Vinson & Elkins Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He is past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and author of Children of Choice: Procreative Liberty and the New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton University Press, 1994).
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Robertson
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D057545:Social Stigma