This book will focus on the connection between bioethics and women’s rights. It will explore this connection in a comparative approach in regard to artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs) because of their impact on women in particular. The availability and application of ARTs produces a tension with traditional and religious views on sexuality, reproduction, parenthood, and family ties. These tensions have been studied in Western cultures but less so in the Islamic contexts. This book will focus particularly on the question how new practices of ARTs are influencing the rights of muslim women in countries where Islam is the dominant religion as well as in secular countries where it is one religion among others.

Nouzha Guessous is Professor of Hassan II University of Casablanca – Morocco. Researcher, essayist and author of columns and press forums in women’s rights and in bioethics she has been appointed since 2019 as Member of the National Council for Human Rights of Morocco. Former member (2000-2007) and President of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (2005-2007); she contributed to the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003) and the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005).

Henk ten Have studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands (MD 1976; PhD 1983). He worked as researcher (Pathology Laboratory, University of Leiden, as practicing physician in the Municipal Health Services (Rotterdam) before being appointed as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, and subsequently as Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since 2010 until 2019 he was Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.

With the participation of: Annagrazia Altavilla, Mounira Amor-Guéret, Berna Arda, Ghaleb Bencheikh, Abdennour Bidar, Salwa Hamrouni, Fahmida Hossain, Farzaneh Kasraei, Karine Lefeuvre, Perrine Malzac, Dominique Maraninchi, Géraldine Mossière, Marie-Geneviève Pinsart, Vardit Ravitsky, Mansooreh Saniei, Evangel Sarwar, Michèle Stanton-Jean, Leïla Tauil.