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Rivka Weinberg: The risk of a lifetime: how, when, and why procreation may be permissible

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  1. Pure benefit is a term introduced by Shiffrin [2, pp. 124–126] and cited by Weinberg to denote “something that is good but whose absence would not be considered a harm or a deprivation” (p. 135).

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    Silviya Aleksandrova-Yankulovska

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Aleksandrova-Yankulovska, S. Rivka Weinberg: The risk of a lifetime: how, when, and why procreation may be permissible. Theor Med Bioeth 40, 67–73 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9467-7

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