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    Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Reproductive Freedom, and Deliberative Democracy
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (2): 135-154. 2009.
    In this paper I argue that the account of deliberative democracy advanced by Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (1996, 2004) is a useful normative theory that can help enhance our deliberations about public policy in morally pluralistic societies. More specifically, I illustrate how the prescriptions of deliberative democracy can be applied to the issue of regulating non-medical uses of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), such as gender selection. Deliberative democracy does not aim to win a …Read more
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    The case for re-thinking incest laws
    Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (9). 2008.
    The recent case of German siblings Patrick Stübing and his sister Susan Karolewski has reignited debate over the criminalisation of sexual intercourse among consanguine descendants. The primary justification for criminalising incest is the purported increased risk of genetic disabilities among offspring, but is criminalising sexual intercourse an empirically sound and proportionate response to this increased risk? To answer this question we must consider the specifics of the harm in question and…Read more
  • Civic Liberalism and the “Dialogical Model” of Judicial Review
    Law and Philosophy 25 (5): 489-531. 2006.
    In a world that is inherently indeterminate, a suitable theory of distributive justice must perhaps itself be indeterminate, and its indeterminacies must accommodate those of the world where relevant.Russell Hardin, Indeterminacy and Society.