Publications

Some of Becki's research is available via open access including her recent book with Bloomsbury:

Open Access book:

The Welfare of Future Children: Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening (London, Bloomsbury, 2025)

Available as a free PDF download

Links to selected Open Access papers

‘Why we Must Change the Bioethical Terminology around So-Called “Lives Not Worth Living,” and “Worthwhile” and “Unworthwhile” Lives’ Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, published online 2025: 1-11.

‘Reasons, Persons, Eugenics and an Argument in Favour of Gene Editing’ American Journal of Bioethics, 2024, 24 [8] 37-40.

With Fiona Ulph, Molly Parfett and Faye Johnson, ‘Views of young people with cystic fibrosis towards whole genome sequencing in newborn screening’, European Journal of Human Genetics 2024 [32]: 1159–1165.

With Panagiota Nakou, ‘The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: Lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations’ Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2023 [44]: 589–606.

With Fiona Ulph, ‘Psychological and ethical challenges of introducing whole genome sequencing into routine newborn screening: Lessons learned from existing newborn screening.’ The New Bioethics 29 [1] 2023: 52-74.

With Lucy Frith, ‘Editorial – The ethical implications of treating a pregnant woman to benefit the fetus’ Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 2022 21 [4]: 558 - 559

With Catherine Bowden, 'Can routine screening for alcohol consumption in pregnancy be ethically and legally justified?' Journal of Medical Ethics, 2022;48:512-516.

'When Intuition is Not Enough. Why the Principle of Procreative Beneficence Must Work Much Harder to Justify Its Eugenic Vision', Bioethics, 2014, 28: 447-455

'The Fallacy of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence' Bioethics, 2009 23: 265-273

Blogs

Bloomsbury

‘Why open access for academic books matters’

A reflection on how one accessible book changed the course of my entire career, and how the values of open research have been at the core of my work ever since.

Journal of Medical Ethics

‘‘Why we must resist proposals for routine screening for alcohol in pregnancy’