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Is procreative beneficence obligatory?

Journal of medical ethics - 1 Feb 2015

Saunders Ben

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Julian Savulescu defends the principle of procreative beneficence, according to which parents have a prima facie moral obligation to choose the child with the best expected life. In this paper, I argue that Savulescu fails to show that procreative beneficence is genuinely obligatory, because of h...

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PMID: 24523029
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101711

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