Gaza Health Crises in News and Scholarship

Since our last post on the issue in November, the series of health crises facing Palestinians has worsened considerably. After 140 days of escalated hostilities and ongoing Israeli bombardment, both basic utilities and healthcare infrastructure have been decimated, leaving those … Continue reading

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FAB Gab episode 22: Jeanne Proust asks, ‘what is a uterus and, what do we want it to be’?

The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now, and in this episode, Jeanne Proust discusses her recent co-authored paper focussed on the uterus, as a concept and as a complex organ. The paper arises from the context of the … Continue reading

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FAB Gab Episode 20: Anna Nelson on Ectogenesis by Request

The latest episode of FAB Gab is now out, and in this episode, Anna Nelson discusses partial ectogenesis as a mode of delivery for pregnant people. In her paper, recently published in IJFAB, Anna argues that partial ectogenesis should be … Continue reading

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FAB Gab Episode 19: Jemma Rollo on a Relational Ethics of Pregnancy

The new episode of FAB Gab is out now, featuring the first paper from the latest volume of IJFAB. In this episode, Jemma Rollo discusses her proposal for a relational ethics of pregnancy that might take account of feminist commitments … Continue reading

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FAB Gab Episode 12: Jill Drouillard on a gender-inclusive ethics of reproduction.

You will need stimulants to keep you free prescription for levitra safe. The bleeding can happen in fast generic cialis the brain matter, termed as intracerebral haemorrhage. The drug is well known due to the best components of Sildenafil citrate … Continue reading

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Substance Use Disorder By Pregnant Persons Should be Treated as a Complex Medical Condition, Not Punished as a Moral Failing
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Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe (MD; MS Medical Ethics) is Chief of Service in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Eskenazi Health and has worked to expand Eskenazi’s Centering Pregnancy program. It is hardly breaking news that the United States is in … Continue reading

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‘Sick Pregnant Women’ – How to Terrify Research Funders, and Why This Needs to Change
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“Sick pregnant women”: the three little words that can make potential investors in medical research run for the hills. On Thursday, an article in the Washington Post described the efforts over two years of a team of researchers – including … Continue reading

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Thinking about abortion beyond “pro-life” and “pro-choice”
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I have been seeing so much about the New York abortion law debate that I feel almost compelled to say a few words about it. The law states that a physician “may perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner’s … Continue reading

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“Bathroom Bioethics” over at the Hastings Center Report
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Over at the Hastings Center blog Bioethics Forum, Charlene Galarneau (who has written for IJFAB Blog, as well) has a few thoughts on how to broaden our understanding of what “Bathroom Bioethics” should mean. What do many transgender persons, farmworkers, … Continue reading

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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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‘No’ means we keep the Status Quo: A ‘yes’ vote is the only morally acceptable result in Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
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Editor’s Note: Irish philosopher Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh is a long-time member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, and writes for IJFAB Blog today on the upcoming urgent vote on whether to keep Ireland’s 8th amendment. As has long been noted, … Continue reading

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Disparities in Maternal Mortality: Some American women have a higher risk of the highest cost of being pregnant
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Maternal mortality is a basic public health measure. It is also one of the many health outcomes on which the United States ranks much lower than other comparably developed nations. As per Ann Simmons’ superb article on the subject of … Continue reading

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