The Wrongness of Third-Party Assisted Reproduction: A Natural Law Account
Children have an absolute right to be loved by their genetic parents and a strong prima facie right to be raised by them. This is because genetic parents, by virtue of their genetic connection to their children, have an intimate and permanent personal relationship to those children at the bodily lev...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 104-121 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCB Personal ethics NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Children have an absolute right to be loved by their genetic parents and a strong prima facie right to be raised by them. This is because genetic parents, by virtue of their genetic connection to their children, have an intimate and permanent personal relationship to those children at the bodily level. As a result, the absence of genetic parents' love (understood as a high-priority commitment to the child's well-being) is a significant harm to children. This view presupposes that human beings are rational animal organisms. This essay provides a brief defense of this metaphysical premise, then explains the connection between that premise and the moral claim that genetic parents have an absolute obligation to love their genetic children. Except in cases of incompetence, this obligation can only be fulfilled by raising those children themselves. Donor conception is therefore always an injustice, because it intentionally deprives a child of the important right to be loved by his or her biological parents. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbw008 |