Recent Publications and Presentations (since 2022)
“Made With Love & Science: Queer Reproductive and Family Ethics,” ASBH, St. Louis, MO, September 2024
“Infertility, Involuntary Childlessness, and Inclusion,” ASBH, St. Louis, MO, September 2024
“Justice for Women/Gestators: Superior Personhood or Plain Old Feminism?” Journal of Medical Ethics 50, 1 (2023): 22-23. (commentary on Heloise Robinson’s “Pregnancy and Superior Moral Status: A Proposal for Two Thresholds of Personhood”)
“Gender Affirming Treatment and Reproductive Interventions: Exploring Connections,” 8th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference (University of Texas Medical Branch), Galveston, TX, January 2024
“Donor Conception, Genetic Knowledge, and Bionormativity: A Book Review of Daniel Groll’s Conceiving People” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, (2023).
“Anonymous vs. Open Donation and Queerness as Political: Comments on Groll’s Conceiving
People,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 16, 1 (2023): 166-81. (as part of a symposium on Groll’s book)
“Anonymous vs. Open Donor Conception, Children’s Interests, and the Parental as Political,” 2023 Central APA Meeting, Denver, CO, February 2023
“The Ethics of Safewords in Sex and Childbirth,” CSWIP, Oakland University, October 2022
Earlier Publications (pre 2022)
“Developing a Moral Reasoning Toolbox Through a Case-Based Progressive Writing Assignment in the Bioethics Classroom,” American Association of Philosophy Teachers, June 2021
“Nonideal Theory and Ethical Pragmatism in Bioethics: Value Conflicts in LGBTQ+ Family-Making” in Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, edited by Elizabeth Victor and Laura Guidry-Grimes 2021
“What is Pregnancy Ambivalence? Is it Maternal Ambivalence?” for The Maternal Tug: Ambivalence, Identity, and Agency, edited by Sara LaChance Adams, Tanya Cassidy, and Susan Hogan, 2020.
“Experience as Evidence: Pregnancy Loss, Pragmatism, and Fetal Status” The Journal of Social Philosophy, 49 (2018): 270-93.
“Introduction to Value Theory” (co-authored with Pieranna Garavasco) and “Feminist Abortion Ethics and Fetal Status” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytical Feminism
“(Queer) Family Values and ‘Reciprocal IVF’: What Difference Does Sexual Identity Make?” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 27, 3 (Sept. 2017): 443-73
(co-authored with Timothy Murphy) “Clinical Responses to Infertility in Lesbians and Queer Women,” Fertility & Sterility Dialog May 15, 2017
"So This Lesbian Couple Walks Into a Fertility Clinic...: Bioethics and the Medicalization of Queer Women's Reproduction" APA Newsletter on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Philosophy 15, 2 (Spring 2016): 6-12.
"What Does Queer Family Equality Have to Do with Reproductive Ethics?" International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9, 1 (Spring 2016): 27-67.
"A Procedural, Pragmatist Account of Ethical Objectivity" Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 23, 2 (2013): 169-200.
"Ethical Progress as Problem-Resolving" The Journal of Political Philosophy 20, 4 (2012): 384-406.
"Ethical Progress and the Goldilocks Problem" Southwest Philosophy Review 26, 1 (2010) (Proceedings of the 2009 Southwestern Philosophical Association Conference)
"Second-Personal Respect, the Experiential Aspect of Respect, and Feminist Philosophy" Hypatia 25 (Spring 2010): 316-33.
"Femininity, Sports, and Feminism: A Theory of Physical Liberation." The Journal of Sport & Social Issues 28 (August 2004): 245-65. (with Susan Basow)
Current and Upcoming Projects
Book Project under Contract with Routledge Press: LGBTQ+ Family-Making, Reproductive Ethics, and the (Re)Shaping of Family Values.
Invited to be Editor of “Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family” entry of SEP
“Childbirth, Consent, and Safe Words” article manuscript in progress
“Denying Children Genetic Heritage, Denying Children Geographic/Social Proximity to Family” conference paper in progress