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Actual Causal Link Between IVF and Views of Children
07/25/2003

Whereas I concentrated, yesterday, on humanity's rights in relation to the individual in the context of IVF, Pia de Solenni directs her focus on children:

Reproductive liberty has come to mean the liberty of parents to determine everything (medically possible) about their child. It means nothing about the rights of that child to be created within the conjugal embrace of loving and committed parents. It means nothing about the rights of the child to be accepted even if she's not perfect. Soon, it might mean that parents can return the child if she isn't up to the specifications they desired (this is not absurd: think of wrongful-birth suits).

Children born any-how deserve our love, and people of any age deserve the respect that they earn. But
the fact that an individual child doesn't lose worth does not translate into a society in which children don't lose worth.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 07:44 PM EST