In Appreciation of Anne Donchin’s Life and Work

This piece grew from my talk at a panel honoring Anne Donchin’s life and work at the 2016 meeting of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) in Edinburgh. In it, I underline Anne’s promotion and support of feminist bioethicists and feminist bioethics as a field. Her most notable theoretical work was replacing the unrealistic liberal paradigm of self-sufficient, egoistic “autonomous” individuals with a more relational one acknowledging our essentially politically-tinged relationships. Her more applied work in assisted reproduction was equally notable, understanding its roots in the noxious marriage of pronatalism and negligence of fertility-preservation.