Procreative beneficence is a term referring to the moral obligation of parents to have the healthiest children through all natural and artificial means available.

The term was coined by Julian Savulescu, a professor of applied ethics at St Cross College in Oxford.

See also

• Bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Human enhancement
• Human genetic engineering
• Morphological freedom

• Procreative liberty
• Reproductive rights
• Reprogenetics
• Techno-progressivism
• Transhumanism

External links

• Savulescu, Julian. Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children
• de Melo-Martin, Inmaculada. On our obligation to select the best children: a reply to Savulescu
• Birch, Kean. Beneficence, determinism and justice: an engagement with the argument for the genetic selection of intelligence
• Herissone-Kelly, Peter. Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent

Bioethics | Human rights | Social philosophy