Intimate and medicalized, natural and technological, reproduction poses some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time. This volume brings together scholars from multiple perspectives to address both traditional and novel questions about the rights and responsibilities of human reproducers, their caregivers, and the societies in which they live.

• Introduction


• Leslie Francis


• Part 1. Society


• Chapter 1. Amy Cabrera Rasmussen. The Discursive Context of Reproductive Ethics


• Chapter 2. Sheelagh McGuinness and Heather Widdows. Access to Reproductive Rights: Global Challenges


• Chapter 3. Rosamond Rhodes. Constructing the Abortion Argument


• Chapter 4. Diana Meyers. Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum.


• Chapter 5. Donna Dickenson. The Commodification of Women's Reproductive Tissue and Services


• Chapter 6. Christopher Gyngell and Michael Selgelid. 21st Century Eugenics.


• Chapter 7. Kimberly Mutcherson. Procreative Rights in a Post-Coital World.


• Chapter 8. Anita Silvers and Leslie Francis. Reproduction as a Civil Right.


• Part 2. Providers


• Chapter 9. Armand Antommaria. Conscientious Objection in Reproductive Health.


• Chapter 10. Judith Daar. The Role of Providers in Assisted Reproduction: Potential Conflicts, Professional Conscience and Personal Choice.


• Chapter 11. Jeffrey R. Botkin. Ethical Issues in Newborn Screening.


• Part 3. Parents


• Chapter 12. Norvin Richards. How We Acquire Parental Rights


• Chapter 13. Sara Goering. Mothers and Others: Relational Autonomy in Parenting.


• Chapter 14. Don Hubin. Procreators' Duties: Sexual Asymmetries


• Chapter 15. Margaret P. Battin. Reproductive Control for Men. For Men?


• Chapter 16. David Orentlicher. Societal Disregard for the Needs of the Infertile.


• Chapter 17. Leslie Francis. Is Surrogacy Ethically Problematic?


• Chapter 18. Adam Cureton. Parents with Disabilities.


• Chapter 19. Imogen Goold. Late-in-life Motherhood: Ethico-Legal Perspectives on the Postponement of Childbearing and Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies.


• Chapter 20. David Wasserman. Justice, Procreation, and the Costs of Having and Raising Disabled Children.


• Chapter 21. Lorna A. Marshall. Ethical Issues in the Evolving Realm of Egg Donation.


• Chapter 22. I. Glenn Cohen. Sperm and Egg Donor Anonymity: Legal and Ethical Issues.


• Chapter 23. Hilde Lindemann. Who Am I When I'm Pregnant?


• Part 4. Last but not Least: Zygote, Blastocyst, Embryo, Fetus, Newborn


• Chapter 24. Adam Kadlac. Contemplating the Start of Someone.


• Chapter 25. Janet Malek. The Possibility of Being Harmed by One's Own Conception


• Chapter 26. Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane. Understanding Procreative Beneficence.


• Chapter 27. Bonnie Steinbock. Opting for Twins in IVF: What Does Procreative Responsibility Require?


• Chapter 28. David DeGrazia. Procreative Responsibility in View of What Parents Owe Their Children.

Leslie Francis is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Distinguished Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, University of Utah