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Procreative beneficence

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Procreative beneficence is a term refering to 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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Several critiques: On our obligation to select the best children: a reply to Savulescu. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15168699&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_docsum Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15812970&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16507665&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum

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