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The Impact of Science

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Neill Furr on some of the mistakes people make when thinking about reproduction.

Thanks to advances in sciences such as genetics and fertility provision, we find ourselves having to make moral decisions about situations that are unfamiliar to us, that we have had no cause to consider before. However, we often apply the moral attitudes that we have used in more familiar situations, in which those attitudes might be thought of as tried and tested. This is a natural and practical tendency but perhaps a dangerous one. The precise nature of these situations is not always obvious and the attitudes we apply to them may not be appropriate, leading us to make errors in judgement and unwittingly cause injustice rather than prevent it.

I would like to focus on some common mistakes in thinking about the reproductive sciences and to look at how these affect the way we approach problems.

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