Procreative beneficence

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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.

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[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

  • Savulescu, Julian. Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children
  • de Melo-Martin, Inmaculada. On our obligation to select the best children: a reply to Savulescu
  • Birch, Kean. Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence
  • Herissone-Kelly, Peter. Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent
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