Fewer invited talks by women in evolutionary biology symposia

J Schroeder, HL Dugdale, R Radersma… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Lower visibility of female scientists, compared to male scientists, is a potential reason for the
under‐representation of women among senior academic ranks. Visibility in the scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Why and how to prefer a causal account of parenthood

L Porter - Journal of Social Philosophy, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The most promising account of parental obligation currently on offer is a causal account.
According to such an account, parents incur obligation to their offspring by causing them to …

Breastfeeding and defeasible duties to benefit

F Woollard, L Porter - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017 - jme.bmj.com
For many women experiencing motherhood for the first time, the message they receive is
clear: mothers who do not breastfeed ought to have good reasons not to; bottle feeding by …

Parental obligation and compelled caesarean section: careful analogies and reliable reasoning about individual cases

E Kingma, L Porter - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Whether it is morally permissible to compel women to undergo a caesarean section is a
topic of longstanding debate. Despite plenty of arguments against the moral permissibility of …

Adoption is not abortion‐lite

L Porter - Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
abstract It is standardly taken for granted in the literature on the morality of abortion that
adoption is almost always an available and morally preferable alternative to abortion—one …

Miscarriage and Person-Denying.

L Porter - Journal of Social Philosophy, 2015 - search.ebscohost.com
The article discusses a study on miscarriages and the moral side of permissibility of abortion
and person-denying. The study deals with the moral aspects of fetal killing and the …

[HTML][HTML] Protocol for a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial using pure palmitoleic acid to ameliorate insulin resistance and lipogenesis in overweight and …

E Cetin, B Pedersen, LM Porter, GK Adler… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Palmitoleic acid (POA), a nonessential, monounsaturated omega-7 fatty acid (C16: 1n7), is a
lipid hormone secreted from adipose tissue and has beneficial effects on distant organs …

Gestation and parental rights: why is good enough good enough?

L Porter - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2015 - ojs.lib.uwo.ca
In this paper I explore the question of whether gestation can ground parental rights. I
consider Anca Gheaus's (2012) claim that the labour and bonding of gestation give one the …

Abortion, infanticide and moral context

L Porter - Journal of medical ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
In 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?', Giubilini and Minerva argue that
infanticide should be permitted for the same reasons as abortion. In particular, they argue …

[HTML][HTML] Harm reduction and moral desert in the context of drug policy

LB Porter - Health Care Analysis, 2020 - Springer
The target of my discussion is intuitions lay people have about justice in the context of drug
policy—intuitions that take on a more or less moral-desert-based shape. I argue that even if …