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Peer Reviewed Article co-authored by Lyn Gillam published in Journal of Law and Medicine
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Leslie Replies to Kate Gleeson
In an article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, academic lawyer Kate Gleeson takes Leslie to task for comments she made on radio regarding the importance of reforming Victoria’s abortion law. In this article, in the same edition of the Journal of Bioethical inquiry, Leslie replies to Gleeson’s criticisms.
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Who’s the Father? Rethinking the Moral ‘Crime’ of ‘Paternity Fraud’
In Australia, men’s mobilisation around paternity fraud has led to numerous father-favouring changes to family law. Despite this, feminists have been slow to interrogate discrepant paternity discourse. In this paper, I analyse and respond to the empirical and normative assertions contained in the paternity fraud charge.
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Is Genetic Screening and Therapy Making Us a Sorting Society?
In her chapter in The Sorting Society: The ethics of genetic screening and therapy (ed. Loane Skene and Janna Thompson), Leslie advocates a balance between the rights of parents to decide if, when and what sort of children they bring into the world, and the need for social equity and justice.
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The Australian Pro-Choice Movement and the Struggle for Legal Clarity, Liberal Laws and Liberal Access: Two Case Studies
In this chapter, written with Cait Calcutt (p. 41–70), Leslie analyses, and seeks to draw lessons for contemporary Australian pro-choice activists, of significant legislative changes to abortion laws in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 1998. The chapter is part of a larger collection undertaken in phase one of the Johannesburg Initiative, an international project aimed at building capacity amongst pro-choice advocates.
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Declining Marriage Rates and Gender Inequity in Social Institutions: Towards an Adequately Complex Explanation for Childlessness
A recent newspaper report pitted McDonald’s and Birrell’s explanations for Australia’s below-replacement fertility against each other. In this article, Cannold presents data from qualitative research into the experience and understandings of 35 childless women aged 28 to 42.
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Who Owns A Dead Man’s Sperm?
Leslie’s article in the British Journal of Medical Ethics about postmortem or posthumous sperm donation.
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The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision: Helping Parents To Decide
Leslie’s chapter on male circumcision appears in Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgery
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Read Leslie’s chapter on Paternity Fraud in in Sperm Wars
Walking Wallets and One-Stop Sperm Shops: How Men Fear That Women See Them in the Postmodern Reproductive Age
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Read Leslie on Fatherhood, and Lowering the Temperature of Debates About the Use of Donor Sperm by Single Women and Lesbians
This peer-reviewed article, Redefining Fatherhood: Lowering the temperature of debates about the use of donor sperm by single women and lesbians, first appeared in the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics.
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Understanding and Responding to Anti-choice Women-centred Strategies
This paper discusses the rise and use of a ‘woman-centred’ anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do not really choose abortion but are pressured into it by others and then experience a range of negative effects afterwards, including an increased risk of breast cancer, infertility and post-abortion grief. Rather than evaluate the truth of such claims, this paper seeks to explicate from a feminist perspective the design, intent and implications of this strategy and how it is being used in legislative tactics, counselling, law suits and anti-choice activism. Such an analysis is necessary for pro-choice efforts to respond effectively to this new strategy, not only through literal rebuttals based on evidence, but also through responses that counter its ideological power.
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The Australian Pro-Choice Movement and the Struggle for Legal Clarity, Liberal Laws and Liberal Access
The Extended Australian Report of the “The Johannesburg Initiative”
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Women’s Response to Ectogenesis and the Relevance of Severance Abortion Theory
Leslie’s 1992 Master of Bioethics
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Books
The Book of Rachael What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? Two thousand years ago, as a charismatic young preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read.
What, No Baby? takes us on journey into the lives of contemporary women who plan to have it all - marriage, motherhood and work - yet have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother.
The Abortion Myth forges a new women-centred abortion ethic capable of preserving a woman's right to control her body and her freedom to choose or reject motherhood.