title: Expectant Fathers, Abortion, and Embryos.
abstract: One thread of abortion criticism, arguing that gender equality requires that men be allowed to terminate legal parental status and obligations, has reinforced the stereotype of men as uninterested in fatherhood. As courts facing disputes over stored pre-embryos weigh the equities of allowing implantation of the pre-embryos, this same gender stereotype has been increasingly incorporated into a legal balancing test, leading to troubling implications for ART and family law.
authors.affiliation: Assistant professor at Penn State Law. She received a J.D. from The Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and a B.A. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Dara E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Purvis
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D005220:Fathers / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States