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Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims (2024)
Journal Article
BARON, T. (in press). Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims. Moral Philosophy and Politics,

This paper examines the legitimacy of retrospective parental rights-claims through the lens of so-called ‘thwarted father’ cases: men who are unaware of their progeny’s existence until the window for establishing legal parentage (and associated right... Read More about Justice for ‘thwarted fathers’? Problems for retrospective parental rights claims.

Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen (2024)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2024). Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen. Journal of Medical Ethics, Article jme-2024-109921. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-109921

In their recent paper ‘Is pregnancy a disease?’, Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen argue in the affirmative, highlighting features shared by both pregnancy and paradigmatic diseases. In particular, they point to the harmful symptoms and side effects of... Read More about Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen.

Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes (2024)
Journal Article
Baron, T., Svingen, E., & Leyva, R. (in press). Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10343-1

Surrogacy and adoption are both family-making measures subject to extensive domestic and international regulation. In this nationally representative survey study (N = 1552), we explore public attitudes to various forms of surrogacy and adoption in th... Read More about Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes.

Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2024). Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients. Journal of Medical Ethics, 50(10), 708-711. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109264

Some National Health Service healthcare boards in the UK will approve a request for female sterilisation only if the patient first accepts a trial period of 1 year with an intrauterine device (IUD), a form of long-acting reversible contraception. In... Read More about Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients.

The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes (2023)
Journal Article
Cornell, M., & Baron, T. (2024). The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes. Legal Studies, 44(2), 332-351. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2023.33

Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised... Read More about The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes.

Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment (2023)
Journal Article
Dierckxsens, G., & R Baron, T. (2024). Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 49(1), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhad039

Gender dysphoria (GD) is marked by an incongruence between a person's biological sex at birth, and their felt gender (or gender identity). There is continuing debate regarding the benefits and drawbacks of physiological treatment of GD in children, a... Read More about Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment.

Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2024). Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent. Bioethics, 38(7), 609-615. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13204

Assisted reproduction often involves biological contributions by third parties such as egg/sperm donors, mitochondrial DNA donors, and surrogate mothers. However, these arrangements are also characterised by a biological relationship between the chil... Read More about Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent.

Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2024). Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 33(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000269

A number of countries and states prohibit surrogacy except in cases of "medical necessity" or for those with specific medical conditions. Healthcare providers in some countries have similar policies restricting the provision of clinical assistance in... Read More about Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity.

A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood (2020)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2020). A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood. Bioethics, 34(7), 664-670. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12719

In this paper, I offer a critique of (actual and possible) causal theories of parenthood. I do not offer a competing account of who incurs parental obligations and why; rather, I aim to show that there are fundamental problems for any account of who... Read More about A lost cause? Fundamental problems for causal theories of parenthood.

Nobody puts baby in the container: The foetal container model at work in medicine and commercial surrogacy (2018)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2019). Nobody puts baby in the container: The foetal container model at work in medicine and commercial surrogacy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(3), 491-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12336

This article argues that a particular metaphysical model permeates cultural practices surrounding pregnancy: The foetal container model. Widespread uncritical reliance on this view of pregnancy has been highly detrimental to women’s liberty and repro... Read More about Nobody puts baby in the container: The foetal container model at work in medicine and commercial surrogacy.