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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
imageAt least 1 in 4 stillbirths in the U.S. are preventable, research shows. O2O Creative/iStock via Getty Images Plus

About 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...

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