{"id":9805,"date":"2026-04-23T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:52:14","slug":"postmortem-gestational-donation-medical-miracle-or-intrusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/postmortem-gestational-donation-medical-miracle-or-intrusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmortem Gestational Donation: Medical Miracle or Intrusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/Lynn_To_Publish_v2.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Lynn_To_Publish_v2<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Medical technologies continue to improve at a rapid pace, bringing us ever closer to working near magic; but balancing someone\u2019s rights to autonomous medical decision-making with fetal personhood is an open issue ripe for analysis. As seen in the ongoing story of Adriana Smith and baby Chance, families lack recourse when hospital decision-makers override both the surrogate judgment of the deceased person and the guidance of the state\u2019s Attorney General. This Note explores a novel application of the privacy tort\u2014 intrusion into seclusion\u2014as a viable claim for the estate to bring on behalf of people subjected to postmortem gestational donation against their wishes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PDF: https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/Lynn_To_Publish_v2.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Eli Lynn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume 27, Issue 4 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical technologies continue to improve at a rapid pace, bringing us ever closer to working near magic; but balancing someone\u2019s rights to autonomous medical decision-making with fetal personhood is an open issue ripe for analysis. As seen in the ongoing story of Adriana Smith and baby Chance, families lack recourse when hospital decision-makers override both <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-27\/postmortem-gestational-donation-medical-miracle-or-intrusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[660,727],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}