TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Timothy F.
TI  - Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
T2  - Basic bioethics
SN  - 9780262305822
AV  - HQ76.25 .M867 2012 
U1  - 176.4 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Genetic aspects
KW  - Sexual orientation
KW  - Research
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Prenatal influences
KW  - Prenatal diagnosis
KW  - Human genetics
KW  - Bioethics
KW  - Prenatal Diagnosis
KW  - Orientation sexuelle
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Influence prénatale
KW  - Diagnostics prénatals
KW  - Génétique humaine
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The controversy : parents and their children -- The controversy goes mainstream -- A genetic study raises the stake -- Book reports, mostly -- In defense of trait selection -- More debate -- Beyond rights -- Not a few last words -- Appendix: arguments for and against prenatal interventions
N2  - Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery
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