caa a22 4500 388073608 CHVBK 20180307125155.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0829320100005937 doi S0829320100005937 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0829320100005937 Langevin Louise Faculty of Law, Laval University The Compensation of Wrongful Pregnancy in Québec Civil Law [Elektronische Daten] [Louise Langevin] The Supreme Court of Canada has recognized the right to reproductive autonomy for women based on the right to liberty protected by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Thus, it is a woman's choice whether to have children. It follows, therefore, that in the case of a violation of her reproductive autonomy, a woman has a right to compensation. It is in light of these principles that I analyze the wrongful pregnancy cases in Québec civil law. From a feminist analytical framework, I posit that Québec courts have effectively denied women the right to reproductive autonomy by awarding compensation for the cost of child-rearing only in cases where a difficult economic situation is evidenced by the parents. In so doing, the courts have not only refused to fully compensate women for the injuries caused to them, but they continue to reproduce the dominant pronatalist ideology in reproductive matters. This judicial reaction to cases of wrongful pregnancy is another example of the gendered dimension of law. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1999 Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/01(1999), 61-82 0829-3201 14:01<61 1999 14 CLS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100005937 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100005937 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Langevin Louise Faculty of Law, Laval University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 14/01(1999), 61-82 0829-3201 14:01<61 1999 14 CLS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge