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Parental Planning and New Reproductive Technologies

Wilkinson, Stephen. 2010. Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 265 pp

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Notes

  1. Although, in some cases, infanticide, in the form of a painless and quick end to an unavoidably short and painful life may be a morally different issue, albeit still controversial.

  2. Wilkinson does note some concerns regarding impersonal moral principles and different number cases (93–97). However, the extent that such concerns are relevant to a book (and subject matter) mostly concerned with same number cases is limited (3–4).

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Many thanks to the anonymous referee and to Ben Saunders for their very useful comments.

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Feeney, O. Parental Planning and New Reproductive Technologies. Res Publica 17, 303–309 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-011-9150-6

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