THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO CREATE CHILDREN WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF THE BEST LIFE

According to what we call the Principle of Procreative Beneficence (PB), couples who decide to have a child have a significant moral reason to select the child who, given his or her genetic endowment, can be expected to enjoy the most well-being. In the first part of this paper, we introduce PB, exp...

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Authors: Savulescu, Julian (Author) ; Kahane, Guy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
In: Bioethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 5, Pages: 274-290
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Reproduction
B Well-being
B genetic selection
B procreative beneficence
B Autonomy
B Enhancement
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