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In an article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, academic lawyer Kate Gleeson takes Leslie to task for comments she made on radio regarding the importance of reforming Victoria's abortion law. In this article, in the same edition of the Journal of Bioethical inquiry, Leslie replies to Gleeson's criticisms.

In Australia, men's mobilisation around paternity fraud has led to numerous father-favouring changes to family law. Despite this, feminists have been slow to interrogate discrepant paternity discourse. In this paper, I analyse and respond to the empirical and normative assertions contained in the paternity fraud charge.

In her chapter in The Sorting Society: The ethics of genetic screening and therapy (ed. Loane Skene and Janna Thompson), Leslie advocates a balance between the rights of parents to decide if, when and what sort of children they bring into the world, and the need for social equity and justice.

In this chapter, written with Cait Calcutt (p. 41-70), Leslie analyses, and seeks to draw lessons for contemporary Australian pro-choice activists, of significant legislative changes to abortion laws in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in 1998. The chapter is part of a larger collection undertaken in phase one of the Johannesburg Initiative, an international project aimed at building capacity amongst pro-choice advocates.

A recent newspaper report pitted McDonald's and Birrell's explanations for Australia's below-replacement fertility against each other. In this article, Cannold presents data from qualitative research into the experience and understandings of 35 childless women aged 28 to 42.

Leslie's article in the British Journal of Medical Ethics about postmortem or posthumous sperm donation.

Leslie's chapter in the book Ectogenesis: Artificial womb technology and the future of human reproduction published by Rodopi in 2006 is called "Women, ectogenesis and ethical theory". To discuss obtaining a copy of this chapter contact Leslie.

Leslie's chapter on male circumcision appears in Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgery by Rowman & Littlefield.

Walking Wallets and One-Stop Sperm Shops: How Men Fear That Women See Them in the Postmodern Reproductive Age was published in Sperm Wars: the rights and wrongs of reproduction, edited by Heather Grace Jones and Dr Maggie Kirkman and published in 2005 by ABC Books. Read the chapter.

This peer-reviewed article, Redefining Fatherhood: Lowering the temperature of debates about the use of donor sperm by single women and lesbians, first appeared in the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics.

This paper discusses the rise and use of a 'woman-centred' anti-choice strategy to oppose abortion in Australia and the USA. It argues that this strategy seeks to imitate and exploit aspects of the pro-choice, women-centred position on abortion. The strategy contends that women do not really choose abortion but are pressured into it by others and then experience a range of negative effects afterwards, including an increased risk of breast cancer, infertility and post-abortion grief. Rather than evaluate the truth of such claims, this paper seeks to explicate from a feminist perspective the design, intent and implications of this strategy and how it is being used in legislative tactics, counselling, law suits and anti-choice activism. Such an analysis is necessary for pro-choice efforts to respond effectively to this new strategy, not only through literal rebuttals based on evidence, but also through responses that counter its ideological power.

The Extended Australian Report of the "The Johannesburg Initiative"

Leslie's 1992 Master of Bioethics