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95In Their Best Interest?: The Case Against Equal Rights for ChildrenCornell University Press. 1992.Proponents of children's liberation (CL) argue that there are no morally relevant differences between children and adults. Consequently, special protective laws that limit children's freedom are unjustified, and should be abolished. Protectionists reject the premise of this argument, and hence also the conclusion. Proponents of CL mostly fix upon the capacity for instrumental reasoning as the criterion that should separate autonomous from non-autonomous individuals. I argue that most childr…Read more
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13Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Medical issues affecting health care have become everyday media events. In response to mounting public concern, growing numbers of bioethicists are being appointed to medical school faculties and public policy panels. However the ideas voiced in these forums are seldom informed by feminist perspectives. In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, tr…Read more
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Educating Gifted ChildrenIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Education Society. 1999.
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Priority Setting for New Technologies in Medicine: A Qualitative StudyBritish Medical Journal 321 1316-1318. 2000.
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7Why Children Shouldn't Have Equal RightsInternational Journal of Children's Rights 1 (3): 223-241. 1994.
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43Feminists Healing EthicsHypatia 4 (2). 1989.The field of ethics is enjoying a much-needed renaissance. Traditional theories and approaches are appropriately coming under fire, although not every new idea will stand time's test. Feminist thinking suggests that we at least emphasize the importance of women and their interests, focus on issues specially affecting women, rethink fundamental assumptions, incorporate feminist insights and conclusions from other areas, and be consistent with respect to our concerns about equality by paying atten…Read more
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Should We Add the "Xeno" to "Transplantation"?Politics and the Life Sciences 19 (2): 247-259. 2004.
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575Abortion and the Argument from ConvenienceIn Laura Martha Purdy (ed.), Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics, Cornell University Press. 1996.
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Liberal Parenting and Adolescent Sexuality: A Response to Lainie RossPolitics and the Life Sciences 15 (2): 302-394. 1996.
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32The morality of new reproductive technologiesJournal of Social Philosophy 18 (1): 38-48. 1987.Science is revolutionizing human reproduction. New techniques are already with us, such as artificial insemination, the freezing of sperm, in vitro fertilization and the use of surrogate mothers. Artificial wombs are clearly on the horizon.
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17Genetic Diseases: Can Having Children Be Immoral?In John L. Buckley (ed.), Genetics Now, University Press of America. pp. 26. 1978.
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10Is Abortion Murder?In R. L. Perkins (ed.), Abortion: Pro and Con, Schenkman. 1974.This essay deals with the morality of abortion. We argue that abortion is morally unobjectionable and that society benefits if abortion is available on demand. We begin by setting out a preliminary case in support of the practice of abortion. We then examine moral objections to abortion and show why those objections are unsound. We conclude by considering what properties something needs in order to have a serious right to life, and we show that a human fetus does not possess those properties. Th…Read more
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Sex, Lies, and the Religious Right: "Culture of Life" or Culture of Misery?CSER Review 1 (2). 2005.
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The Politics of Preventing Premature DeathIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Public Health Policy and Ethics, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2004.
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40Does Women's Liberation Imply Children's Liberation?Hypatia 3 (2). 1988.Shulamith Firestone argues that for women to embrace equal rights without recognizing them for children is unjust. Protection of children is merely repressive control: they are infantilized by our treatment of them. I maintain that many children no longer get much protection, but neither are they being provided with an environment conducive to learning prudence or morality. Recognizing equal rights for children is likely to worsen this situation, not make it better.
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4Another Look at Contract PregnancyIn Helen B. Holmes (ed.), Issues in Reproductive Technology I: An Anthology, New York University Press. 1992.
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A call to heal ethicsIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Martha Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. pp. 8--13. 1992.
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1In Vitro Fertilization Should Be an Option for WomenIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2014.
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Wells CollegeRetired faculty
Aurora, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Feminist Bioethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |