Conference Papers

List of Accepted Papers for The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2008

This list is subject to change. Final conference programme and schedule will be announced in early May. These papers are not to be cited or quoted.

Jaime Ahlberg and Harry Brighouse, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA: “An Argument Against Cloning.”

Kyle Anstey, Joint Centre for Bioethics, The University of Toronto Canada and ISIS Regional Fertility Centre, Mississauga Canada: “A Critique of Arguments Supporting Disability Avoidance.”

Adrienne Asch, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, New York, USA: “Licensing Parents: Is the Infertility Clinic Society's Conscience or Society's Police?”

Andrew I. Cohen, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA: “Children’s Rights to Parental Support and Compensation for Historic Injustices.”

Heather Draper, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK: “Severing Parental Responsibility.”

Sarah Hannan,Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom, and Richard Vernon, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada: “Parental Rights: A Role-based Approach.”

Dien Ho, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Health Care Ethics, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA, USA: “How Unilateral Abortion Rights Helps Identify the Limit of Procreative Autonomy.”

Donald C. Hubin, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA: “Procreators’ Duties.”

Crispinous Iteyo, Department of Philosophy, National University of Lesotho, Lesotho: “Truth-telling and Technologically Reproduced Children.”

Maureen Kelley, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA, “Aiming Higher: A Developmental Approach to Children without Families.”

Mianna Lotz, Department of Philosophy, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia: “Rethinking the Moral significance of Why We Have Children.”

Joseph Millum, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA: “Parental Work and Parental Rights.”

Christine Overall, Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University and Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: “Not ‘Better Never to Have Been.’”

Norvin Richards, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA: “Lives No One Should Have To Live.”

Tom Sorell, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK: "Public Health, Parental Choice and Expert knowledge.”

Liezl Van Zyl, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Waikato New Zealand: “A Case for Commercial Surrogate Motherhood.”

Adrian Walsh, Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of New England, and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Australia: “The Non-Identity Problem, Future People and Modal Harm.”