Amanda Roth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies, contributed to the article published August 7, 2024 by Jamie Ducharme in Time Magazine.
Roth, who specializes in bioethics, moral and feminist philosophy, and gender & sexuality studies, spoke to Ducharme about the role of IVF in allowing individuals to have genetically-related children and what IVF has meant for same-sex couples.
"In some ways, IVF is an unlikely target. The technology enables people who have badly wanted biological children, a sentiment that could be seen as having a 'conservative traditional family aspect to it,' says Amanda Roth, an associate professor of philosophy and women's and gender studies at the State University of New York at »Ê¹Ú²©²ÊÍøÖ·. The importance of having children is a regular conservative talking point--see: Vance recently calling child-free women '' without a 'direct stake' in the future of America--and IVF makes it possible for more people to do that."
Roth drew on her ongoing research for a book on lgbtq+ family-making, reproductive ethics, and the (over)valuing of genetic ties in family and parenthood for this contribution.