Ectogestation and the Future of Reproductive Rights Technology, Justice, and Abortion

Introduction to the Ethics of Ectogestation Christopher Stratman and Joona Räsänen  

Part I: The Use of Ectogestation  

1. Ectogestation and Reproductive Rights in the Post-Dobbs Legal Landscape Susan Kennedy and Lawrence J. Nelson  

2. Mortality, Morbidity and Impairment: Ethical Considerations About the Lever for Ectogestation Seppe Segers and Dorian Accoe  

Part II: The Pregnant Person and Gestational Justice  

3. Ectogenesis or Gestational Justice Anna Smajdor  

4. Nobody Puts the Container in Baby: Ectogenesis and Justice for the Womb Teresa Baron  

5. A Queer Feminist Posthuman Approach to Ectogenesis: A Call for Reproductive Justice Tiia Sudenkaarne, Tamara Kayali Browne, and Evie Kendal  

Part III: The Meaning of Birth  

6. Artificial-Gestation Technologies and the Meaning of “Birth” Nicolas Colgrove, Bruce Blackshaw, and Daniel Rodger 

7. Are Gestatelings Newborn Infants? Christopher Stratman and Joona Räsänen  

Part IV: Abortion Rights  

8. Genetic Privacy and a Case for Ending the Life of the Fetus Joona Räsänen  

9. Ontic Injustice and Ectogestation: On the Right to Not Be a Parent Luke Roelofs  

10. Ectogestation and the Meta-Problem of Abortion Christopher Stratman. 

Index 

Biography

Christopher Stratman (Ph.D., University of Nebraska–Lincoln) specializes in biomedical ethics and philosophy of mind. His research examines the ethical and legal implications of emerging reproductive technologies like ectogestation. He has recently published articles in Philosophy & Technology, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, and Monash Bioethics Review. He also explores the phenomenology of reasons, rational agency, and how lived experience shapes healthcare decisions. Stratman is currently a Lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an Instructor for the Prison Education Program at Southeast Community College, and he was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Joona Räsänen (Ph.D., University of Oslo) specializes in bioethics and applied philosophy. He has published articles in Ratio, Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics, Theoria, Trends in Genetics, among other journals. Räsänen is an editorial board member for the Journal of Medical Ethics and Bioethics. He is also a regional editor for the JME Practical Bioethics. Räsänen is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Aarhus University.