“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
