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Published 1995 in the Journal of Applied Philosophy 12(1): 56-64

Background Average annual fertility rates in industrialised countries have been below two children per woman for the past 3 decades. The reasons behind women’s childbearing behaviour are complex. However, a lack of awareness regarding the consequences of delayed childbearing and the inability of

In the many countries which have some form of regulation of ART, a public consultation of some sort is a frequent feature of either the process leading up to regulation or of the regulatory mechanism itself. Not surprisingly, widely divergent views on the moral

This paper discusses the rise and use of a ‘woman-centred’ anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do

Read Gleeson’s criticism Publication historyReply to 'The Other Abortion Myth'   Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2008-09-13

Published 2008 in Women’s Studies International Forum 31: 249–256. Publication historyWho's the father? Rethinking the moral 'crime' of 'paternity fraud'  Women's Studies International Forum Who's the father?  Living Ethics http://www.ethics.org.au/about-ethics/ethics-centre-articles/living-ethics-newsletter/previous-issues/issue-74.html

Chapter published in The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy, edited by Loane Skene and Janna Thompson. Publication historyIs Genetic Screening and Therapy Making Us a Sorting Society?  The Sorting Society 2008-01-01

In this chapter, written with Cait Calcutt (p. 41–70), Leslie analyses, and seeks to draw lessons for contemporary Australian pro-choice activists, of significant legislative changes to abortion laws in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 1998. The chapter is part

A recent newspaper report pitted McDonald’s and Birrell’s explanations for Australia’s below-replacement fertility against each other. In this article, Cannold presents data from qualitative research into the experience and understandings of 35 childless women aged 28 to 42. Childless women were

Leslie’s article in the British Journal of Medical Ethics about postmortem or posthumous sperm donation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1733912/pdf/v030p00386.pdf

Leslie’s chapter on male circumcision appears in Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeryby Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by David Benatar, the collection looks at ethical issues arising from male circumcision, female genital alteration, sex assignment and reassignment surgery, the

Walking Wallets and One-Stop Sperm Shops: How Men Fear That Women See Them in the Postmodern Reproductive Age was published in Sperm Wars: the rights and wrongs of reproduction, edited by Heather Grace Jones and Dr Maggie Kirkman and published in 2005 by ABC

Published in the peer-reviewed journal the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 4(2) November 2002 Publication history Lowering the Temperature of Debates About the Use of Donor Sperm by Single Women and Lesbians  Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 2002-11-01

The Extended Australian Report of the “The Johannesburg Initiative”Full Report Australia, the Johannesburg Initiative, Unpublished November 2000A condensed version of this report was published in (2001) “The Australian Pro-Choice Movement and the Struggle for Legal Clarity, Liberal Laws and Liberal Access: Two case

Leslie’s 1992 Master of Bioethics.