Why have children? [ the ethical debate
"In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press ,
c2012
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| Series: | Basic bioethics
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Introduction
- 2. Reproductive freedom, autonomy and reproductive rights
- 3. When prospective parents disagree
- 4. Deontological reasons for having children
- 5. Consequentialist reasons for having children
- 6. Not a "better never to have been"
- 7. An obligation not to procreate?
- 8. Illness, impairment, and the procreation decision
- 9. Overpopulation and extinction
- 10. Procreation, values, and identity