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Ethics and reproductive medicine

Ethics and reproductive medicine Abstract This article surveys relevant moral and ethical implications of reproductive medicine, excluding any aspects of contraception. To maintain the methodological priority of a moral perspective, it focuses on moral theory and ethics in general before looking at the impact of ethics on the different techniques applied in reproductive medicine. We suggest that discourse ethics should be centre-stage among the moral perspectives, since it has a unique capacity to synthesize, gauge and emulate other moral perspectives without necessarily replacing them. Questions of spousal fidelity, parental identity, sexual relations, reshaping of family ties, preimplantation diagnosis, discarding of human life, up to the question of what kind of life is generally acknowledged as worth living, and which is not, all these are morally significant topics. As well as providing a description of the techniques used in reproductive medicine, our article presents a rationale for charting potentials for moral problems. This renders it possible to elucidate the moral costs of each of the options offered by reproductive medicine in the light of whatever moral view one identifies with. Keywords: discourse/ethics/reproductive medicine Oxford University Press http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Reproduction Update Oxford University Press

Ethics and reproductive medicine

Human Reproduction Update , Volume 2 (5) – Sep 1, 1996

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
Oxford University Press
ISSN
1355-4786
eISSN
1460-2369
DOI
10.1093/humupd/2.5.447
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Abstract

Abstract This article surveys relevant moral and ethical implications of reproductive medicine, excluding any aspects of contraception. To maintain the methodological priority of a moral perspective, it focuses on moral theory and ethics in general before looking at the impact of ethics on the different techniques applied in reproductive medicine. We suggest that discourse ethics should be centre-stage among the moral perspectives, since it has a unique capacity to synthesize, gauge and emulate other moral perspectives without necessarily replacing them. Questions of spousal fidelity, parental identity, sexual relations, reshaping of family ties, preimplantation diagnosis, discarding of human life, up to the question of what kind of life is generally acknowledged as worth living, and which is not, all these are morally significant topics. As well as providing a description of the techniques used in reproductive medicine, our article presents a rationale for charting potentials for moral problems. This renders it possible to elucidate the moral costs of each of the options offered by reproductive medicine in the light of whatever moral view one identifies with. Keywords: discourse/ethics/reproductive medicine Oxford University Press

Journal

Human Reproduction UpdateOxford University Press

Published: Sep 1, 1996

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