Keep doing what we are doing to prevent this and eventually it will work. This has failed. Another approach, or lack of it, is the Individual Rights approach. This approach focuses on the right of the mother versus the rights of the child. We recognize individual autonomy in our society, and therefore, under this approach we are continuing our ambivalence to the overall effect that this illness has on our communities by perpetuating the problem through an ineffective reform method found in this model.
People have a right to live their lives in a way that they see fit.
Maternal Rights arguments are similar to Individual rights arguments in that we are, under this approach, supposed to be willing to recognize the rights of the mother no matter the cost to the rest of the community. Regulation of the mother during pregnancy under this approach is seen as intrusive and burdensome. Therefore, we continue to respect the rights of the mother and fail to do the same for the unborn child or the rest of the community. In strict contrast to this view is the fetal right argument, which states that the rights of the mother are inconsequential to the right of the unborn child. This approach neglects to recognize the individual rights of the mother to any extent and cast mothers as merely the carrier of a child who apparently have no individual rights whatsoever.