Unethical Care for Laboring Women in British Prisons and for Indigenous Women in Canada
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Alas, I am getting ready to go to FAB Congress in Bangalore, India soon, so I don’t have the time to  craft a full argument on two news stories about reproductive ethics that came to my attention this past week.  … Continue reading

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Persons as Producers: Why bioethics should be concerned with work culture and the structure of labor
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Today, May 1, is known in the labor rights movement as May Day or International Workers’ Day. It celebrates the dignity of laboring humans and the right to be seen as and live as fully human. I want to use … Continue reading

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Labor Without Respite: Tennis, pregnancy, and other ‘unexpected feats’

GUEST CONTRIBUTORS Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (Dr. sc. med., Research Associate, Liminal Spaces Project; Teaching Fellow, School of Law; Executive committee member, Mason Institute; University of Edinburgh Law School, UK) Verina Wild (Dr. med., Philosophy Department, Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, Germany)  Social media … Continue reading

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Of births and beds: thinking spatially about obstetric violence
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After giving birth last year in Colombia, I spoke with a (male) Colombian doctor friend of mine about my experience. We were talking about what in Spanish are called “partos verticales”, or “vertical” births  – births in which the mother … Continue reading

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