| The Gift of Life |
| J. David Velleman |
| Area 1 Ethics |
| None |
| Keywords ethics bioethics procreation donor conception sperm donor egg donor parental obligation Seana Shiffrin |
| http://ssrn.com/abstract=1043581 |
| This is the first of three papers on questions of identity, existence, and nonexistence. (The other two are "Love and Nonexistence" and "The Identity Problem".) In this paper I draw on Seana Shiffrin's work on wrongful life to argue that human life is not a gift but a predicament, and that a biological parent's obligation to help offspring cope with that predicament cannot be contracted out to others at will. |
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