Substituted judgment, procreative beneficence, and the Ashley treatment
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Procreative Beneficence, Obligation, and Eugenics
The argument of Julian Savulescu’s 2001 paper, “Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children” is flawed in a number of respects. Savulescu confuses reasons with obligations and equivocates between the claim that parents have some reason to want the best for their children and the more radical claim that they are morally obligated to attempt to produce the best child possible....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0306-6800,1473-4257
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015-103050