Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future assisted reproductive technologies brings out new procreative obligations.

Autorentext

Davide Battisti is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy of Law and Bioethics at the Department of Law of the University of Bergamo. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Bioethics in the Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Program at the University of Milan and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He has published several papers on topics such as reproductive ethics, the allocation of scarce healthcare resources, the ethics of science communication, and research ethics. His work has appeared in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, Social Epistemology, and Ethics of Human Research.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Current and Future Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Prenatal Treatments 2. Responsibility, Procreation, and Reproduction 3. Procreative Beneficence, the Non-Identity Problem, and Impersonal Harm 4. Person-Affecting Morality and the Future of Human Reproduction 5. Is Genome Editing Really Non-Identity-Affecting? A Defense of the Greater Moral Obligation View 6. Responsibility, Genetic Enhancement, and the Child's Right to an Open Future 7. Beyond Consequences? Attitudes and Intentions in Current and Future Assisted Reproduction Conclusions