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What is the harm in harmful conception? On threshold harms in non-identity cases

  • Nicola Williams
  • , John Harris

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Abstract

Has the time come to put to bed the concept of a harm threshold when discussing the ethics of reproductive decision making and the legal limits that should be placed upon it? In this commentary, we defend the claim that there exist good moral reasons, despite the conclusions of the non-identity problem, based on the interests of those we might create, to refrain from bringing to birth individuals whose lives are often described in the philosophical literature as 'less than worth living'.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)337–351
Number of pages15
JournalTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2014

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