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2018 CCF Conference Program

“Conceiving American Families in the 21st Century:

Reproductive Policies, Practices and Technologies”

March 2, 2018

DoubleTree Hotel, Austin, Texas

1617 N Interstate 35 Frontage Rd, 78702

 

 

Morning Keynote Address: “Babies of Technology: Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child”

Speaker: Tom Ekman, Co-author with Mary Ann Mason of “Babies of Technology”

Presider: Joshua Coleman, Clinical Psychologist & Author

 

Panel: The Impacts of Reproduction 
Presider: Tama Levanthal, Tufts University

  • Lauri Pasch, University of California, San Francisco:
    An Insider’s View of IVF Practice in the United States
  • Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas at Austin:
    The Price of Global Surrogacy 
  • Amanda Stevenson, University of Colorado, Boulder:
    Measuring and Communicating Impacts: The Case of Reproductive Health Policy in Texas

 

Media Workshop 
Presider: Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania

  • Stephanie Coontz, Council on Contemporary Families
  • Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Philip Cohen, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Flash Session
Presider: Rachel Donnelly, University of Texas, Austin

  • Sasha Albert, Brandeis University:
    The Limitations of Negative Rights for Studying Reproductive Health Policy 
  • Maurice Anyawie, Bowling Green State University:
    Cohabitation and Contraceptive Use in the United States: A Focus on Race and Ethnicity
  • Kathleen Broussard, University of Texas, Austin:
    The Changing Landscape of Self-Sourced Abortion: Women’s Embodied Experiences in Ireland
  • Sophia Fantus, Baylor College of Medicine:
    ‘It’s not just that I’m having a baby for someone I don’t even know, it’s that they’re gay’: Experiences of Gestational Surrogacy for Gay Men in Canada 
  • Katarina Lee, Baylor College of Medicine:
    Is Intention Enough? Legal Parentage in the Era of Assisted Reproductive Technologies 
  • Elizabeth Nalepa, Case Western Reserve University:
    Increasing Abortion Regulations are Changing who Seeks Abortion and When
  • Mikaela Smith, University of California, Irvine:
    Public Goods for Whom? The Impact of Policy Legacies on Variation in U.S. Public Spending for Reproductive Healthcare Services

 

Afternoon Keynote Address: “Reproductive Health Services in the U.S. – The too much/too little dilemma”

Speaker: Carole Joffe, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at U.C. San Francisco

Presider: Adina Nack, California Lutheran University

 

Panel: Different Paths to Parenthood 
Presider: Arielle Kuperberg, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

  • Lisa Ikemoto, University of California, Davis:
    Reproductive Tourism – Equality Concerns in the Global Market
  • Christa Craven, College of Wooster
    LGBTQ Parents & Reproductive Loss 
  • Caroline Hartnett, University of South Carolina:
    Women’s Experiences of Intended and Unintended Births 

 

Panel: Reproductive Health & Reproductive Rights
Presider:  Abigail Weitzman, University of Texas, Austin

  • Mo Cortez, Vice-Chair of Transgender Education Network of Texas:
    Intersexuality – Human Rights and Reproductive Rights 
  • Marsha Jones, Executive Director of The Afiya Center:
    Leading the Charge for Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Theresa Morris, Texas A&M:
    Cut it Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America
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