Reproductive Ethics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

   PDF

2. Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations Introduction

   • Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher

   Pages 1-4

3. Genetic Testing and Enhancement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

      PDF

   2. Zooming Out: Solidarity in the Moral Imagination of Genetic Counseling

      • Jazmine Gabriel

      Pages 7-25

   3. Enhancing Future Children: How It Might Happen, Whether It Should

      • Susan B. Levin

      Pages 27-44

   4. The Decision to Know: Pregnancy and Epistemic Harm

      • Kirsten M. Kringle-Baer

      Pages 45-60

4. Fertility Preservation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

      PDF

   2. Egg Freezing and the Feminist Quest for Equality in the Workplace

      • Karey Harwood

      Pages 63-75

   3. Fertility Preservation in Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth and Adolescents

      • Steph deNormand

      Pages 77-84

5. Childbirth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

      PDF

   2. Rights and Realities in U.S. Maternity Care

      • Hermine Hayes-Klein

      Pages 87-105

   3. The Periviable Cesarean Section: Can a Case Be Made for Expanding Beneficence in Decision-Making?

      • Tara A. Lynch, Paul Burcher

      Pages 107-114

6. Abortion, Surrogacy, and Circumcision

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

      PDF

   2. “Teaching Morality by Teaching Science:” Religiosity and Abortion Regret

      • Alesha Doan, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

      Pages 117-135

   3. My Child, Your Womb, Our Contract: The Failure of Contract Law to Protect Parties in Gestational Surrogacy

      • Claire Horner

      Pages 137-149

   4. Vulvar Nick and Metzitzah b’peh: Punishment or Harm Reduction?

      • Allan J. Jacobs, Kavita Shah Arora

      Pages 151-169

7. Back Matter

   Pages 171-176

   PDF

This book summarizes the contributions at an April 2016 conference held at Albany Medical College, Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations. Reproductive ethics does not suffer from a lack of challenging issues, yet a few "hot button" issues such as abortion and surrogacy seem to attract most of the attention, while other issues and dilemmas remain relatively underdeveloped in bioethics literature. The goal of this book is to explore and expand the range of topics addressed in reproductive ethics. This is a multi-disciplinary book bringing together philosophers, clinicians, sociologists, anthropologists, and other scholars whose research or clinical interests touch reproductive issues. The results of this compilation are a comprehensive and unique discussion of the evolving issues in the rapidly changing field.

The majority of the popular reproductive ethics anthologies were published at least 10 years ago. The field of reproductive ethics would benefit from a new anthology that addresses some of the perennial dilemmas in reproductive ethics (e.g. abortion, sex selection) from updated perspectives and that also covers new technologies that have emerged only in the last few years, such as social egg freezing. 

• women's health
• obstetrics
• feminist theory
• abortion
• pregnancy
• IVF
• contraception
• bioethics

“This book is needed in the context of bioethics and provides a unique and refreshing take on reproductive ethics that will benefit a new generation of philosophers, clinicians, and bioethicists. … It will be useful to students in biomedical ethics courses, medical students hoping to enter the field of obstetrics, genetics counselors, or nursing students. … This book is essential reading for scholars interested in the vast field of reproductive ethics.” (Jaime Konerman-Sease, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2018)

• Alden March Bioethics Institute and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Albany Medical College, Albany, USA

  Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Paul Burcher

Policies and ethics