{"id":37306,"date":"2014-09-08T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37306"},"modified":"2014-09-09T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:47:31","slug":"no-rainbow-families-and-the-problem-with-race-based-reproduction-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37306","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo Rainbow Families\u201d and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo Rainbow Families\u201d and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics<\/a>
\n2014-09-08<\/p>\n

Catherine Clune-Taylor<\/strong><\/a>, Doctoral Candidate
\nDepartment of Philosophy
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice<\/em><\/p>\n

A July 2014 Calgary Herald<\/em> article<\/a> revealed that Calgary\u2019s<\/a> lone fertility clinic, Regional Fertility Program<\/a>, restricts patients\u2019 use of sperm donors to those of the same race. This \u201cno rainbow families\u201d policy received both national<\/a> and international<\/a> coverage. The media attention prompted the clinic to release a statement<\/a> on its website, claiming that the policy was discarded a year ago (though the clinic had failed to update its website to that effect). Furthermore, the clinic maintained that the views represented in the article were solely those of the physician interviewed, Dr. Cal Greene, who apparently was unaware of the clinic\u2019s change in practice. This is a dubious claim, given Dr. Greene\u2019s position as the clinic\u2019s administrative director and the full transcripts<\/a> of his interviews with the article\u2019s author, Jessica Barrett.<\/p>\n

This news highlights the need for improved oversight of, and regulation for<\/a>, fertility clinics. In addition, news of this clinic\u2019s policy has given rise to complex, sometimes heated discussions among many about race, racism and good parenting.<\/p>\n

As someone who is mixed-race, I was surprised to hear support for Dr. Greene\u2019s arguments in social media from non-white and mixed-race persons.<\/strong> They sympathized with Dr. Greene\u2019s arguments that parents and children should have an ethnic or cultural connection (presumably secured via shared race). They specifically cited the many experiences of interpersonal and institutional racism they had experienced growing up as non-white or mixed-race. They reasoned that a same-race parent would be better able to prepare their children for, and support them through, such experiences, and that it was better to not bring a mixed-race child into a racist society if it could be avoided…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo Rainbow Families\u201d and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,414,2039,8,26],"tags":[3238,17635,17861,17860,17859],"class_list":["post-37306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-family","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-alberta","tag-calgary","tag-catherine-clune-taylor","tag-impact-ethics","tag-impact-ethics-making-a-difference-in-bioethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}