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Leonie Abstein

Leonie Abstein

  • Doktorandin / PhD Candidate UFSP Human Reproduction Reloaded/ H2R
  • Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Academic Associate
Address
Institut für Sozialethik
Room number
ZOA E12

Research interests:

  • Bio- and medical ethics: Reproductive medicine, abortion and vulnerability
  • Ethics of life forms (Lebensformen) and relational ethics: Family, (intended) parenthood and unfulfilled desire to have children
  • Didactics of ethics
  • Feminist theology and philosophy
  • Ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural theology

Short CV

Since 08/2024 

Research assistant in a ‘transdisciplinary innovation’-project: Development of a transdisciplinary teaching module for applied ethics, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Zurich
Since 09/2023 

PhD candidate in the University Research Priority Program “Human Reproduction Reloaded” | H2R, subproject 1 “Normativity of Human Reproduction”, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
06-07/2023 

Research assistant in project "Oral History”, Basel Mission, Switzerland
05/2023 

M. Th. Protestant Theology, Universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Rome (Pontificial Gregorian University, Waldensian Faculty of Theology, i.a.)

  • Topic of the Master's thesis: “Ethical views of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam on abortion”
  • Scholarship of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Germany (2019-2023)
01/2022-06/2023 

Student assistant for network “Theology, Digitalisation and Ethics” of Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg, Germany

07/2019

B. Th. Protestant Theology, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau, Germany

Dissertation project

Moral dimensions of the unfulfilled desire to have children, intended parenthood, and reproductive medicine from a theological-ethical perspective (working title)

Publications

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7324-9896

Abstein, Leonie, Rezension: Marcinski- Michel, Isabella/ Wiesemann, Claudia (Hg.), Reproduktion und das gute Leben. Intersektionale Perspektiven, in: Ethik in der Medizin, 37 3 (2025), 465-469.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00481-025-00873-6

Abstein, Leonie, Rezension: Walser, Angelika: Relationale Autonomie im Kontext von Leihmutterschaft. Eine Herausforderung für theologische Ethik, in: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 96 4 (2025), 307-309. https://doi.org/10.14315/zee-2025-690408

Memberships and engagement

  • Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM):
  • Member of the working group “Ethical questions at the beginning of life” (AEM) (since 2024)
  • Member of the Young Medical Ethics Network (JMED) (since 2023)
  • Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics (SGBE)
  • Member of the Early Career Bioethicists Network (ECBN) (since 2024)
  • Member and representative of Freundeskreis Melanchthon Zentrum Rom e.V. at the General Assembly of the Melanchthon Centre - Protestant Centre for Ecumenical Studies in Rome (since 2022)
  • Protestant Church of Basel-Stadt
  • Member of the synod (since 2025)
  • Delegate at the Women and Gender Conference of Protestant Church in Switzerland (since 2024)
  • Youth delegate at Continental Assembly Europe of Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (since 2024)
  • Protestant Church in Baden
  • Youth Delegate at the Continental Assembly Europe of Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (since 2020)
  • Member of the working group "Europe and ecumenical theology” (2022-2024)