Reproductive Ethics in Clinical Practice

Julie Chor, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and an Assistant Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. After completing medical school at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Chor completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency, Fellowship in Family Planning, and MPH at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her academic and clinical work focus on understanding and addressing barriers that adolescents and young adults face in seeking and obtaining reproductive health care. Dr. Chor also serves as a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Ethics. Katie Watson, JD is Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, and a Core Faculty Member of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She clerked in the federal judiciary and worked in public interest law before completing Fellowships in Clinical Medical Ethics at the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago, and in Medical Humanities at NU-FSM. Her work focuses on women's health and reproductive ethics, and she is the author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion (OUP, 2018). She is currently a Board member and Chair of the Ethics Committee of the National Abortion Federation, a Member of and the Bioethics Advisor to the National Medical Council of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a member of the Editorial Board of the AMA Journal of Ethics, and a former Board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Julie Chor, MD, MPH and Katie Watson, JD

I. Family Planning and Abortion: Preventing Pregnancy and Birth
Chapter 2. Orienting Essay: Julie Chor, MD, MPH and Katie Watson, JD
Chapter 3. Why Reproductive Justice Matters to Reproductive Ethics, Melissa Gilliam MD MPH and Dorothy Roberts JD
Chapter 4. Religiously Affiliated Healthcare Institutions: An Ethical Analysis of What They Mean for Patients, Clinicians, and Our Health System, Lori Freedman PhD and Debra Stulberg MD, MA
Chapter 5. Contemporary Challenges to Providing Confidential Reproductive Health Care to Minors, Amber Truehart, MD, MSc, Lee Hasselbacher, JD, Julie Chor, MD, MPH
Chapter 6. Legal History of Contraception and Abortion in the United States, David Strauss JD,

II. Assisted Reproduction: Getting Pregnant
Chapter 7. Orienting Essay: Julie Chor, MD, MPH and Katie Watson, JD
Chapter 8. Ethics and Stratified (Assisted) Reproduction, Lisa Harris MD PhD
Chapter 9. Preimplantation Genetics: Liabilities and Limitations, Valerie Koch JD
Chapter 10. Who are Your Patients, and What Happens when They Disagree? Conflicts in Treating Multiple Parties Engaging In Third Party Reproduction, Heather Ross JD
Chapter 11. Controversial Issues Surrounding Oocyte Donation, Susan Klock PhD
Chapter 12. Onco-Fertility: Ethics and Hope After Cancer, Bruno Ramalho de Carvalho, MD, MSc, MBA, Jhenifer Kliemchen Rodrigues, BSc, MSc, PhD, and Teresa K. Woodruff, MD, PhD.
Chapter 13. Accessing Reproductive Technology in France: Strengths and Limits of a model that privileges "Just reproduction" above Respect for autonomy, Laurence Brunet et Véronique Fournier

III. Obstetric Ethics: Managing Pregnancy and Delivery
Chapter 14. Orienting Essay: Julie Chor, MD, MPH and Katie Watson, JD
Chapter 15. The fallacy of forced treatment: Reconciling the law and ethics of post-viability treatment refusals & post-viability abortion prohibitions, Katie Watson, JD
Chapter 16. Professional Ethics in Obstetrics Practice and Research, Frank A. Chervenak, MD and Laurence McCullough PhD
Chapter 17. Doing Harm: When Health Care Providers Report their Pregnant Patients to the Police and Other Authorities, Jeanne Flavin, PhD and Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D
Chapter 18. Prenatal counseling for maternal-fetal surgery: Potential biases, competing interests, and undue practice variation in the world of Fetal Care, Stephen D. Brown, MD
Chapter 19. Ethical Issues in Academic Global Reproductive Health, Kayte Spector-Bagdady JD MBE and Timothy R. B. Johnson MD