Procreative beneficence

Procreative beneficence

Procreative beneficence is the moral obligation of parents to have the healthiest children through all natural and artificial means available.

The term was coined by Julian Savulescu, a professor of applied ethics at St Cross College in Oxford.

ee also

*Bioethics
*Biopolitics
*Human enhancement
*Human genetic engineering
*Morphological freedom
*Procreative liberty
*Reproductive rights
*Reprogenetics
*Techno-progressivism
*Transhumanism

External links

*Savulescu, Julian. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12058767&dopt=Abstract Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children]
*de Melo-Martin, Inmaculada. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15168699&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_docsum On our obligation to select the best children: a reply to Savulescu]
*Birch, Kean. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15812970&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence]
*Herissone-Kelly, Peter. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16507665&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent]


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