„Nasciturus" w prawie deliktowym USA

Abstract

The article presents recent developments in the tort law concerning the protection of the interests of the unborn and/or the parents of the unborn and attempts to reconstruct basic notions and definitions appearing in the court decisions and legal writings dealing with the said branch of tort law. Five types of delicts have been described: preconception torts, prenatal torts, wrongful life, wrongful birth and wrongful death. Included are the remarks on the origin and evolution of of each of the delicts as well as on their enforcement in the judicial decisions throughout the fifty states.