A comprehensive, compassionate, and insightful look at a virtually hidden area of medicine and law. Lens covers important topics in a very accessible style. There is nothing like this out there.--David S. Cohen, coauthor of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America A pioneering and elegant meditation on the meaning of pregnancy and the significance of birth and death, in law and in life.--Dov Fox, author of Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology Are Remaking Reproduction and the Law A spellbinding, critically important book on stillbirth that compellingly builds on the author's personal experience to diagnose what is wrong with how the United States handles stillbirth--and what we can do differently. Through her exploration of stillbirth and the law, Jill Wieber Lens expands our understanding of reproductive justice.--Naomi Cahn, coauthor of Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy A masterpiece of academic writing. Lens perfectly mixes the scholarly with the emotional, exploring this subject as both a leading national expert and a mother to Caleb, her stillborn son. She does so with incredible nuance, situating pregnancy loss in a greater fight for reproductive justice.--Greer Donley, University of Pittsburgh School of Law