Publications:

¿At What Price? Assessing the argument in favor of ectogenesis over abortion,¿ IJFAB, forthcoming.

¿Moral Development and Racial Education: How We Socialize White Children and Construct White Fragility,¿ in Incarnating Feelings, Constructing Communities: Experiencing Emotions in the Americas through Education, Violence, and Public Policy, edited by Ana Maria Forero Angel, Catalina Gonzalez Quintero, and Allison Wolf, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2021.


Parents and Virtues: An Analysis of Moral Development and Parental Virtue.  Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Press), 2019.

"Whose Ethics? Making Reproductive Ethics More Inclusive and Just," Janushead, Volume 17, Issue 1 (2019): 93-124.

"Childbirth is not an Emergency: Informed Consent in Labor and Delivery," (co-authored with Allison Wolf), IJFAB, 11:1 (February 2018), 23-43.

"Whose Value? Whose Risk? Exploring Decision Making about Trial of Labor after Cesarean," (co-authored with Allison Wolf), Journal of Medical Humanities, published online October 20, 2016 (in print 2018).

"Attunement and Involvement: How Expert Nurses Support Patient Autonomy," IJFAB, vol. 10, no 1, 10:1 (March 2017), 175-193.

"The Moral Agency of Institutions: Effectively Using Expert Nurses to Support Patient Autonomy," Journal of Medical Ethics, 43:8 (2017), 506-509.

"Is proxy consent for an invasive procedure on a patient with intellectual disabilities ethically sufficient?" AMA J Ethics, April 2016; 18(4): 373-383.

"Ethics of Pregnancy and Childbirth," in Encyclopedia of Human Biology, 3rd Edition, Elsevier Inc. (Summer 2014).

"Disempowered Women?  The Midwifery Model and Medical Intervention," Coming to Life" Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, edited by Caroline Lindquist and Sarah LaChance Adams, Fordham University Press, 2012.

"The Ethics of VBAC," Hasting Center Report, 42:4 (July-August 2012), 24-27.

"On the Immorality of Lying to Children about their Origins," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 18 (Fall):22-33.

"Obstetricians and Violence Against Women," American Journal of Bioethics, 11 (December 2011): 51-56.

"How should feminist autonomy theorists respond to the problem of internalized oppression?" Social Theory and Practice, 36 (July 2010): 409-428

"Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal: Motherhood and Fetal Harm," (with Tricha Shivas), Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy, edited by Sharon Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio, SUNY Press, 2005.  

"The Mammography Screening Controversy: Who and what is heard in the press?" (with Margaret Holmes-Rovner), Patient Education and Counseling, 51 (2003): 75-81.

"Mothers in the Media: Blamed and Celebrated.  An Examination of Drug Abuse and Multiple Births," (with Tricha Shivas), Pediatric Nursing, 28 (March/April 2002): 142-145.