El Principio del Altruismo Procreativouna visión crítica
- Miguel Beriain, Íñigo de 1
- Payán Ellakuria, Ekain 2
- 1 Investigador posdoctoral de la UPV/EHU en la Cátedra Interuniversitaria de Derecho y Genoma Humano
- 2 Cátedra Interuniversitaria de Derecho y Genoma Humano
ISSN: 2529-9573
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Genética y Humanismo
Issue: 3
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética
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Abstract
The Principle of Procreative Altruism has been recently proposed in the bioethics literature by two eminent authors, Tom Douglas and Katrien Devolder. According to their definition, the Principle states that “If couples (or single reproducers) have decided to have a child, and selection is possible, they have significant moral reason to select a child whose existence can be expected to contribute more to (or detract less from) the well-being of others than any alternative child they could have.” This paper is aimed to analyze the consistency of this principle and to introduce some considerations devoted to exclude any kind of unmoral consequence of its use.