Race & Embryo Personhood
Image: Screenshot from Personhood USA video of anti-abortion protesters marching in Washington, D.C.
Writing |
An article under review entitled "Racial Politics of Making Frozen Embryo 'Persons' in the United States" examines how race is mobilized within a branch of the U.S. antiabortion movement to advocate for the legal recognition of embryos as persons. This article examines legal cases, promotional campaigns, and personal narratives from within the white-led movement for embryo personhood.
Participants in the Wenner-Gren Foundation workshop on “Interrogating the Intersections of Race and Reproduction in Medicine, Science, and Technology” in February 2018 are contributing articles to a special issue on race and reproduction. For this special issue, I prepared an article from ethnographic research within a Christian embryo adoption program on the interlocking relationship between race and embryo personhood. I examine how the program confers ethnicity to frozen embryos and fosters racial imaginaries about future children, which I suggest implicate race in the promotion of embryo personhood.
I am also developing an article on racial matching within Christian embryo adoption.
Participants in the Wenner-Gren Foundation workshop on “Interrogating the Intersections of Race and Reproduction in Medicine, Science, and Technology” in February 2018 are contributing articles to a special issue on race and reproduction. For this special issue, I prepared an article from ethnographic research within a Christian embryo adoption program on the interlocking relationship between race and embryo personhood. I examine how the program confers ethnicity to frozen embryos and fosters racial imaginaries about future children, which I suggest implicate race in the promotion of embryo personhood.
I am also developing an article on racial matching within Christian embryo adoption.