Should prenatal sex selection be restricted? Ethical questions and their implications for research and policy
Should prenatal sex selection be restricted? Ethical questions and their implications for research and policy
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DOI：
10.1080/00324720308069
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Goodkind, D
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作者：
Goodkind, D
产前性别测试后的性别选择性堕胎是如此明显的歧视，许多观察家呼吁政府谴责和限制这种做法，这是可以理解的。然而，与这些情绪相平衡的伦理问题却被忽视了。限制这种做法似乎会干扰生殖自由和赋予母亲权力，这是最近开罗会议通过的两个目标。如果性别歧视转移到产后，这些限制还可能增加人类的痛苦。由于最近研究的比较设计的局限性和缺乏适当的数据，对这种替代动态的考虑和实证检验被排除了。然而，这种动态一直被支持堕胎的支持者们认为是存在的。此外，将反歧视立法扩大到产前领域可能会唤醒其他处境不利群体的类似要求，并为其辩护，这些群体的胎儿对手以前引起的公众同情较少，这可能导致对堕胎的进一步限制。
Sex-selective abortion following prenatal sex testing is so blatantly discriminatory that many observers have, understandably, called on governments to condemn and restrict the practice. Yet ethical questions that counterbalance these sentiments have been neglected. Restricting the practice would seem to interfere with reproductive freedoms and maternal empowerment, the twin goals adopted at the recent Cairo conference. The restrictions may also increase human suffering if sex discrimination is then shifted into the postnatal period. Consideration and empirical testing of this substitutive dynamic has been precluded by limitations in the comparative design of recent research and a lack of appropriate data. Nevertheless, this dynamic has always been presumed to exist by pro-choice advocates. Moreover, extending anti-discriminatory legislation to the prenatal realm may awaken and justify similar demands among other disadvantaged groups whose foetal counterparts have previously engendered less public sympathy, which may result in further restrictions on abortion.