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Title: Gamete donation and parental responsibility
Related: Journal of applied philosophy, Vol. 20, Issue 1, p.77-87
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5930.00236
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Date: 2003
Author/Creator: Bayne, Tim
Description: Unlike surrogacy and cloning, reproduction via gamete donation is widely assumed to be morally unproblematic. Recently, a number of authors have argued that this assumption is mistaken: gamete donors, they claim, have parental responsibilities that they typically treat too lightly. In this paper I argue that the 'parental neglect' case against gamete donation fails. I begin by examining and rejecting the view that gamete donors have parental responsibilities; I claim that none of the current accounts of parenthood provides good reason for ascribing parenthood to gamete donors. I then argue that even if gamete donors do have parental responsibilities for 'their' children, it is not clear that they treat these responsibilities too lightly. I conclude the paper by examining the wider question of just what kind of responsibilities gamete donors might have towards the children that they have a role in creating.
Description: 11 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Philosophy

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