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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- 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