title: The Doctor's Dilemma: Paternalisms in the Medicolegal History of Assisted Reproduction and Abortion.
abstract: This article analyzes the comparative history of the law and practice of abortion and assisted reproduction in the United States to consider the interplay between medical paternalism and legal paternalism. It supplements existing critiques of paternalism as harmful to women's equality with the medical perspective, as revealed through the writings of Alan F. Guttmacher, to consider when legal regulation might be warranted.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA. She holds a B.S. from Yale University, New Haven, CT, an M.A. (biochemistry) and J.D. from University of California - Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. She is the author of Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk and Semen in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2014).
authors.forename: Kara W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Swanson
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D026706:Paternalism; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States