TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas
AU - McDougall, Sara
AU - Turner, Felicity
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society for Legal History.
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - On October 2, 2020, a newborn infant girl was discovered in the trash in an airport bathroom in Doha, Qatar. There was a rush to secure the infant's life, which was successful. There was a rush, also, to find the infant's mother, an effort that involved subjecting several women to intrusive physical examinations to determine if they had recently given birth, leading, eventually, to international outcry.
AB - On October 2, 2020, a newborn infant girl was discovered in the trash in an airport bathroom in Doha, Qatar. There was a rush to secure the infant's life, which was successful. There was a rush, also, to find the infant's mother, an effort that involved subjecting several women to intrusive physical examinations to determine if they had recently given birth, leading, eventually, to international outcry.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109186514&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0738248020000541
DO - 10.1017/S0738248020000541
M3 - Editorial
SN - 0738-2480
VL - 39
SP - 225
EP - 228
JO - Law and History Review
JF - Law and History Review
IS - 2
ER -