Programme:
In Icelandic media:
RUV Main TV news: Black market for fertility treatments on the rise
RUV Spegillinn Radio special news
RUV Sjonmal – special program on culture and society – Interview with Salvor Nordal
Presentations and abstracts:
Practices of reproductive technology in the Nordic Countries in global context
A legal overview of the Nordic countries
Salla Silvola, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Justice, Finland
Abstract
Counselling and ART
Helga Sól Ólafsdóttir, Social worker and Assistant Professor, University of Iceland
Abstract
The international market for donor semen and the ethical and regulative issues related to gamete donation
Ole Schou, manager director of Cryos International, Danish Sperm Banks
Abstract
The pros and cons of legal harmonization in ART
Guido Pennings, professor of ethics and bioethics at Ghent University
Ethical Challenges of global reproductive technology
Ethical issues of reproductive technology
Salvör Nordal, director of Centre for Ethics, University of Iceland
Surrogacy and the health care service
Ástríður Stefánsdóttir, Associate Professor, University of Iceland
Abstract
The global baby – adventure and aftermath
Mala Naveen, journalist and author, Norway
Reproductive Tourism
Ruth Macklin, Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
A Comparative Study on the Regime of Surrogacy in EU Member States
Laurence Brunet, leading author of the the EU report
Lecture
PhD session organized in cooperation with COST Action IS1001
Theorizing surrogacy
1 Tiia R. Junnonaho: Womb Politics – Feminist Bioethics and Surrogacy
2 Sarah Jane Toledano: Some Moral Reflections on the Phenomenology of Altruistic Surrogate Motherhood
3 Elina Helosvuori: Naturalizing through surrogacy? Treatment of the failing reproductive biology beyond borders
4 Tatiana Tolstoy: Belonging in a global world. Born through surrogacy
International dimensions of surrogacy
5 Anna Arvidsson: Situation on surrogacy in Sweden – Commissioning parents’ and authorities’ perspective
6 Jane Stoll: Cross-border surrogacy and implications for the child’s right to know his or her biological origins
7 Daniela Schuh: Re-framing motherhood and citizenship. The case of transnational surrogacy in Germany and France
8 Kristin Engh Forde: Win-win or exploitation? An Ethnographic study of Surrogacy in India
All abstracts for the PhD presentations