ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers parliamentary responses to David Steel's Private Member's Bill and subsequent attempts to amend the legislation. It explains the increasingly energetic response to infertility and childlessness. The book also considers a number of the cases which have concerned non-consensual Caesarian sections, looking at similar and more expansive developments in the United States. It analyses the configuration of ideas: reproduction, gender and law, more specifically focusing on the way the cases may be located within a broader technology of gender. The book provides a genealogy of narratives that have endured within consideration of the control or regulation of reproduction since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It illustrates how medico-legal reproductive discourses may be understood as important sites at which dominant models of gender behaviour are constructed and reconstructed.
