RECONCEIVING PRIVACY - RELATIONSHIPS AND REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY

In this Article, Professor Radhika Rao sketches out the parameters of the constitutional right of privacy and applies the right to ''new'' r eproductive technologies, such as artificial insemination, in vitro fe rtilization, and surrogacy. The thesis of the Article is that privacy- currently miscast as an individual right-must be reconceived as a rela tional right in order to capture its social dimension. By attaching th e right of privacy to entire relationships rather than to isolated ind ividuals, Professor Rao both explains existing jurisprudence and offer s a fresh mode of analysis to resolve some seemingly intractable probl ems posed by assisted reproduction.