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A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having biologically related children, or the privileging of a traditional understanding of family

In the spring of 2012, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC)—the federal agency tasked with the oversight of assisted human reproduction in Canada—was abolished through the passage of the omnibus budget bill. This ignominious end was in part a response to the Supreme Court of Canada's Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act. However, as we recount in this article, it was also a result of a series of squandered opportunities to regulate assisted human reproduction in the interests of those who use or are born of assisted human reproductive technologies. This article details the genesis, life, and death of the AHRC. We conclude that many millions of public dollars and many hours of experts' time have been spent, all for naught.

More than words / Alice Dreger and francoise Baylis -- "Where there's smoke, there's Pfizer" / Francoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie -- "So what?" : historical contingency, activism, and reflections on the studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala / Susan M. Reverby -- Twenty years of working toward intersex rights / Alice Dreger -- Working with public citizen : an academic-NGO collaboration / Ruth Macklin -- Reproductive technology's legacy of omission / Miriam Zoll -- Establishing pediatric palliative care : overcoming barriers / Joel E. Frader -- History and philosophy of science engaging the public / Jane Maienschein -- The Flint water crisis / Aron Sousa

Abstract
This article interrogates the nature of editorial privilege and authorial integrity in peer-reviewed academic journals. Focusing on the authors' experience with publishing a letter critiquing high-profile authors in a high-profile journal, the article identifies key concerns with (i) the time it took to complete the peer-review process, (ii) the failure to provide the authors with the peer-review reports, and (iii) the decision to rewrite our text instead of allowing us to respond to the peer-review comments. Our experience suggests that despite the existence of editorial codes of conduct, encroachments on authorial integrity still occur, and the lines between helpful copyediting and unhelpful rewriting of an article are not always clear.