Should parents take active steps to preserve their children's fertility?
(2017) In International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine p.189-205- Abstract
- It has been argued that, when there is a probable imminent risk of loss of children's fertility, their parents should take active steps to preserve their reproductive potential if possible – or even that children have a right to such interventions being undertaken on them on their behalf, as an expression of their right to an open future. In this chapter, I explore these proposals and some of their implications. I place the discussion of fertility preservation for children into the more general context of the choices that parents might have to help keep their children's future reproductive (and parenting) choices open. I discuss the role of desert and fairness in arguments for fertility preservation and their relevance for framings of... (More)
- It has been argued that, when there is a probable imminent risk of loss of children's fertility, their parents should take active steps to preserve their reproductive potential if possible – or even that children have a right to such interventions being undertaken on them on their behalf, as an expression of their right to an open future. In this chapter, I explore these proposals and some of their implications. I place the discussion of fertility preservation for children into the more general context of the choices that parents might have to help keep their children's future reproductive (and parenting) choices open. I discuss the role of desert and fairness in arguments for fertility preservation and their relevance for framings of infertility in general, as well as the relation between having a possibility to reproduce and becoming a parent. (Less)
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- author
- Cutas, Daniela LU
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- fertility preservation, right to an open future, infertility, children, cancer, fairness, desert
- host publication
- Parental responsibility in the context of neuroscience and genetics
- series title
- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
- editor
- Hens, Kristien ; Cutas, Daniela and Horstkötter, Dorothee
- pages
- 189 - 205
- publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISSN
- 1567-8008
- ISBN
- 9783319428345
- 9783319428321
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-42834-5_12
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 131e4027-aaa3-4b25-85c2-d06c9ec2d48b
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- 2020-12-11 15:38:31
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