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79 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 1 (2026)

handle is hein.journals/valewenb79 and id is 1 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW Situating Stillbirth Within a Reproductive Justice Methodology Amidst Perilous Politics Jamie R. Abrams* IN TR O D U CTIO N ............................................................................ . . 1 I. NEXT DIRECTIONAL MOVES TO ADVANCE STILLBIRTH PREVENTION REFORMS ....................................................... 2 II. SITUATING CONCRETE PROPOSALS WITHIN THE REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE MOVEMENT ................................. 3 III. PINPOINTING THE OBSTRUCTIVE BARRIERS TO STILLBIRTH R E FO R M S........................................................................... . 6 IV. POLITICAL AND LEGAL REGRESSION SINCE STILLBIRTH AND THE LAW'S PUBLICATION.......................... 8 C O N CL U SIO N .................................................................................. 1 1 INTRODUCTION Stillbirth and the Law,1 published in 2025 by the University of California Press, offers both a deeply personal and rigorously insightful examination of how law, medicine, and policy intersect around stillbirth. Jill Lens brings her full self to this work in ways that reflect deep feminist roots cultivated over years of Lens's impressive scholarly production.2 Lens channels her lived experience of stillbirth into a * Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law. Thanks to Ainnir O'Regan and Jacy Gamblin for research and editing support. 1. JILL WIEBER LENS, STILLBIRTH & THE LAW (2025). 2. See, e.g., Greer Donley & Jill Wieber Lens, Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood, 75 VAND. L. REV. 1649 (2022) (Long-standing dogma dictates that recognizing pregnancy loss threatens abortion rights-acknowledging that miscarriage and stillbirth involve the loss of something valuable, the theory goes, creates a slippery slope to fetal personhood.); Jill Wieber Lens & Dov Fox, Valuing Reproductive Loss, 112 GEO. L. J. 61 (2023); Jill Wieber Lens, 1