Baby Markets 10th Anniversary International Congress
The Baby Markets International Congress celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Baby Markets Roundtable series founded by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy's Director, Chancellor’s Professor Michele Goodwin.
This Congress brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, policy-makers, civil society advocates, journalists, activists, and others to examine the myriad ways in which families are created, shaped, formed, and regulated. The Congress addressed the role and status of the child, mother, father, surrogate, grandparents, and the state in the creation and deconstruction of the family. This international meeting explored the shifts in family-making, reflecting trends in single- and same-sex parenting as well as the ways in which heteronormativity constructs legal and social norms in child custody, child-rearing, and family planning.
Marcy gave a presentation about germline gene editing and assisted reproduction. CGS Advisory Board member Dorothy Roberts also spoke on these issues in her keynote address. Members of the ART Working Group also organized a panel on reproductive justice insights into assisted reproduction. The full Congress schedule is available here.
Elliot Hosman wrote a summary of the event, on Biopolitical Times.