Fetal autopsies could help prevent stillbirths, but too often they are used to blame mothers for pregnancy loss
- Written by Jill Lens, Professor of Law, University of Iowa
At least 1 in 4 stillbirths in the U.S. are preventable, research shows. O2O Creative/iStock via Getty Images PlusAbout 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.
The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each...