Sex selection and regulated hatred

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 291-294

  Harris, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGAL ASPECT; RESPONSIBILITY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; RISK; SEX PRESELECTION;

EID: 18844436732     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2003.007526     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Sex selection: options for regulation. A report on the HFEA's 2002-03 review of sex selection including a discussion of legislative and regulatory options. London: HFEA, 2003.
2. Harding DW. Regulated hatred: an aspect of the work of Jane Austen. Scrutiny, 1940. The version I have used appears in Lodge D, eds. 20th Century Criticism. London: Longman, 1972:262.
3. "He led his regiment from behind-/, he found it less exciting. /but when away his regiment ran/his place was at the for, O.../. W S Gilbert. The Gondoliers. Text in: Gilbert WS. The Savoy Operas. London:Macmillan, 1956:510.
4. Almost certainly different children but not necessarily so.
5. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 states: (Clause 13.5.) "A woman shall not be provided with treatment services unless account has been taken of the welfare of the child who may be born as a result of the treatment (including the need of that child for a father), and of any other child who may be affected by the birth." As it happens I think both procedures would maximise child welfare. I simply doubt the HFEA would agree.
6. I have argued this point at length elsewhere. See: The welfare of the child. Health Care Analysis 2000;8:27-34, and
7. Justine Burley and John Harris, Human cloning and child welfare. J Med Ethics 1999;25:108-14.
8. I owe this characterisation of the non-identity arguments to Julian Savulescu but from the horse's mouth you will find it in Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984: Chapter 16. See also
9. Justine Burley and John Harris, Human cloning and child welfare. J Med Ethics 1999;25:108-14.
10. Robertson JA. Children of Choice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
11. Dworkin R. Life's Dominion. London: Harper Collins, 1993.
12. Savulescu J. Deaf lesbians, designer disability and the future of medicine. BMJ 2002;325:771-3.
13. See my "Rights reproductive choice" in John Harris, Søren Holm, eds. The Future of Human Reproduction: Choice and Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998:5-37.
14. Parts of this section were published in "Podium", The Independent 27 November 2003:19.