Procreative beneficence

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.

See also

• Bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Human enhancement
• Human genetic engineering
• Morphological freedom

• Procreative liberty
• Reproductive rights
• Reprogenetics
• Techno-progressivism
• Transhumanism

External links

• Savulescu J (October 2001). "Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children". Bioethics 15 (5-6): 413–26. PMID 12058767. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0269-9702&date=2001&volume=15&issue=5-6&spage=413. 
• de Melo-Martin I (2004). "On our obligation to select the best children: a reply to Savulescu". Bioethics 18 (1): 72–83. PMID 15168699. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0269-9702&date=2004&volume=18&issue=1&spage=72. 
• Birch K (February 2005). "Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence". Bioethics 19 (1): 12–28. PMID 15812970. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0269-9702&date=2005&volume=19&issue=1&spage=12. 
• Herissone-Kelly P (March 2006). "Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent". J Med Ethics 32 (3): 166–9. doi:10.1136/jme.2005.012369. PMC 2564476. PMID 16507665. http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16507665.