{
  "abstract": "The criminal law has long protected the fetus as part of the mother. The civil law recognises that once born, the child has independent rights distinct from its mother. Legally significant events occurring during gestation may crystallise after the living child is separated from her mother at birth. A child in utero at the moment when her father died in an industrial accident was held, on the advent of her birth, to inherit the compensation that accrued from his sudden death (Orrell Colliery v Schofield (1909 1 KB 178)): ‘An unborn child will be deemed to be born whenever her interests require it’.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Robert Wheeler"
    }
  ],
  "title": "The fetus: still beyond the reach of the court",
  "uid": "11aae7db-ce89-53f9-879d-c9249d4763c4"
}