Feminist Ethics of Reproduction and Women's Bodies
The twentieth century saw the development and use of various scientific and medical technologies to intervene in the process of human biological reproduction, and in principle to extend our reproductive options. I analyse some of the developments in the application of these technologies, in particular the technologies for sex (pre-) selection to consider their consequences for society in general and for women in particular by making use of some of the concepts in feminist ethics. I argue that applied in a social, political and economic context of inequality, exclusion and discrimination, reproductive technologies replicate or exacerbate existing inequality, and create new forms of inequality. Although, they may further the individual interests of a few women, they violate several feminist ethical principles, in particular the principles of reproductive justice and gender justice.