Reproduction beyond consent: When individual and familial interests collide
Cutas, Daniela LU and Johansson, Mats LU
(2026)
p.9-26
- Abstract
- Medical technologies have increasingly facilitated intrafamilial procreative initiatives. These include the collection of gametes from dying or deceased adults, in order to enable their spouse or their parents to create a child; the removal of reproductive material from children at the request of their parents; and uterus transplants from mother to daughter or between sisters. What do such cases have in common? Whose interests are actualised when reproductive decisions are taken that involve family members' reproductive potential? This chapter explores these questions and the role that the family has in the determination of whether claims to (sometimes non-consensual) reproductive intervention should be – or will be – supported. It focuses... (More)
- Medical technologies have increasingly facilitated intrafamilial procreative initiatives. These include the collection of gametes from dying or deceased adults, in order to enable their spouse or their parents to create a child; the removal of reproductive material from children at the request of their parents; and uterus transplants from mother to daughter or between sisters. What do such cases have in common? Whose interests are actualised when reproductive decisions are taken that involve family members' reproductive potential? This chapter explores these questions and the role that the family has in the determination of whether claims to (sometimes non-consensual) reproductive intervention should be – or will be – supported. It focuses on interests that may play a role in reproductive decision-making within the family, over and beyond the interests of the individuals that are part of it and whose procreation is being sought. (Less)
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- Cutas, Daniela
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and Johansson, Mats
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026-07-30
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- reproductive ethics, family ethics, consent, individual interests, collective interests
- host publication
- The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family : Individual and Collective Interests - Individual and Collective Interests
- editor
- Hens, K ; Cutas, D and Smajdor, A
- pages
- 9 - 26
- publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- DOI
- 10.5040/9781350525191.0005
- language
- English
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- yes
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author = {{Cutas, Daniela and Johansson, Mats}},
booktitle = {{The Ethics of Human Reproduction and the Family : Individual and Collective Interests}},
editor = {{Hens, K and Cutas, D and Smajdor, A}},
keywords = {{reproductive ethics; family ethics; consent; individual interests; collective interests}},
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title = {{Reproduction beyond consent: When individual and familial interests collide}},
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doi = {{10.5040/9781350525191.0005}},
year = {{2026}},
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