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10Bioethics, EarlyView.
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21Significant Interests and the Right to KnowInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 16 (1): 201-213. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Significant Interests and the Right to KnowReuven Brandt (bio)1. IntroductionDaniel Groll's book Conceiving People (2021) attempts a novel and insightful defence of why individuals ought to choose open over anonymous gamete donation, barring any special circumstances. In broad strokes, the overall argument proceeds by defending three main claims: (1) that failing to disclose to children that they are donor-conceived is morally proble…Read more
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6Birth Rights and Wrongs ExtendedJournal of Contemporary Legal Issues 23 (1): 49-65. 2021.Dov Fox’s Birth Rights and Wrongs offers a largely compelling argument for expanding the scope of legal actions and remedies available to those whose reproductive choices are wrongfully frustrated by the actions of others. The dominant focus of the book is individuals who, due to the negligence and/or malice of medical professionals, suffer harms arising from reproduction imposed, denied, or confounded. A serious examination of these kinds of injuries is certainly appropriate given that medical …Read more
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17The ethical geneBioethics 36 (4): 403-410. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 403-410, May 2022.
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52Gamete Donation, the Responsibility Objection, and Procreative ResponsibilitiesJournal of Applied Philosophy 38 (1): 88-103. 2020.Sophisticated arguments advanced by Harry Silverstein, David Boonin, and Jeff McMahan attempt to show that being responsible for an individual's existence need not result in an obligation to ensure that the needs of that individual are satisfied. While these arguments take place within the abortion debate, by extension they threaten causal accounts of procreative responsibility more generally. In this article, I defend causal accounts of procreative responsibility by showing that these arguments…Read more
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12Family tiesForum for European Philosophy Blog. 2017.Reuven Brandt on parental responsibility and gamete donation.
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20Mandatory sex selection and mitochondrial transferBioethics 32 (7): 437-444. 2018.The Institute of Medicine has recently endorsed arguments put forward by John Appleby calling for mandatory sex selection against female offspring in the initial trials of mitochondrial replacement techniques. In this paper I argue that, despite this endorsement, the reasons offered by Appleby for mandatory sex selection are inadequate. I further argue that plausible revisions to Appleby's arguments still fail to convincingly defend such an intrusive policy. While I remain neutral about whether …Read more
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10Genetic fallacies?Forum for European Philosophy Blog. 2016.Reuven Brandt on anonymity and mitochondrial donation.
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32The Transfer and Delegation of Responsibilities for Genetic Offspring in Gamete ProvisionJournal of Applied Philosophy 34 (5): 665-678. 2016.In this article I reject the claim that the responsibilities acquired by gamete providers can be transferred to their biological children's intending parents. I defend this position by first showing that arguments in defence of the transferability of responsibilities in gamete provision cases fail to distinguish between the transfer and delegation of responsibility. I then provide an argument against the transferability of responsibilities in gamete provision cases that differs from the ones off…Read more
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38Why Disclosure of Genetic Ancestry in Misattributed Paternity Cases Should Be Treated Differently From Disclosure in Adoption and Gamete DonationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 13 (5): 58-60. 2013.No abstract
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36Sperm, Clinics, and ParenthoodBioethics 30 (8): 618-627. 2016.In this article I examine a recent approach to regulating assisted reproduction, whereby use of some kind of medical intervention ‘triggers’ laws governing legal parenthood that are more favourable to intending parents and sperm providers. I argue that although perhaps an improvement on the previous legal framework, these laws are problematic for three important reasons. First, they are prone to violating parental rights and unjustly imposing substantial burdens on individuals. Second, they are …Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |