Essentially a Mother

Tennessee law prof Jennifer Hendricks has won the AALS junior scholars paper contest with Essentially a Mother.  From the abstract:

Rather than following existing precedent on parental rights, the law of high-tech parenthood is tending sharply in the direction of denigrating gestation, defining parenthood exclusively in terms of genes or contracts. I show that conferring parental rights on gestational mothers would produce better outcomes and be more consistent with the best aspects of existing constitutional precedents.