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dc.contributor.authorFox, Dov
dc.date2021-11-25T13:36:37.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T12:32:41Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T12:32:41Z
dc.date.issued2009-04-01T00:00:00-07:00
dc.identifierylsspps_papers/42
dc.identifier.contextkey1031933
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/17782
dc.description.abstractThis Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences cannot convincingly explain the race-conscious design of donor catalogs. This prompts us to examine the expressive dimension of wrongful discrimination. Even practices marked by innocent motives and benign effects can give reason for pause when they needlessly entrench divisive assumptions about how people of a particular race think or act. Race-based differentiation in voting ballots, dating websites, and donor catalogs helps us to tease out the subtle normative tensions that racial preferences occasion in the contexts of citizenship, romance, and reproduction. These reflections suggest that racially salient forms of donor disclosure are pernicious social practices, which, while operating beyond the reach of the law, ought to be condemned as bad policy. The Note concludes by developing reproductive choice-structuring mechanisms that aim to balance respect for intimacy, autonomy, and expressions of racial identity with responsibility to work against conditions that divide us.
dc.subjectConstitutional Law
dc.titleRacial Classification in Assisted Reproduction
dc.source.journaltitleStudent Prize Papers
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T12:32:41Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylsspps_papers/42
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=ylsspps_papers&unstamped=1


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