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Moral Parenthood: Not Gestational

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Benjamin Lange

Dr.

JRG Leader Ethics of AI

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Parenting our biological children is a centrally important matter, but how, if it all, can it be justified? According to a contemporary influential line of thinking, the acquisition by parents of a moral right to parent their biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilitates between a newborn and a gestational procreator. I evaluate two arguments in defence of this proposal and argue that both are unconvincing.Data are available in a public, open access repository.

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