Procreative reasons-relevance: on the moral significance of why we have children.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Lotz, Mianna
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Advances in reproductive technologies - in particular in genetic screening and selection - have occasioned renewed interest in the moral justifiability of the reasons that motivate the decision to have a child. The capacity to select for desired blood and tissue compatibilities has led to the much discussed 'saviour sibling' cases in which parents seek to 'have one child to save another'. Heightened interest in procreative reasons is to be welcomed, since it prompts a more general philosophical interrogation of the grounds for moral appraisal of reasons-to-parent, and of the extent to which such reasons are relevant to the moral assessment of procreation itself. I start by rejecting the idea that we can use a distinction between 'other-regarding' and 'future-child-regarding' reasons as a basis on which to distinguish good from bad procreative reasons. I then offer and evaluate three potential grounds for elucidating and establishing a relationship between procreative motivation and the rightness/wrongness of procreative conduct: the predictiveness, the verdictiveness, and the expressiveness of procreative reasons.
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DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00656.x
PubMed reference number	18445093
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	5
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00656.x
Journal	Bioethics
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article