Centre for Human Bioethics, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Bioethics. 2012 May;26(4):173-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01848.x. Epub 2010 Oct 6.
A number of advances in assisted reproduction have been greeted by the accusation that they would produce children 'without parents'. In this paper I will argue that while to date these accusations have been false, there is a limited but important sense in which they would be true of children born of a reproductive technology that is now on the horizon. If our genetic parents are those individuals from whom we have inherited 50% of our genes, then, unlike in any other reproductive scenario, children who were conceived from gametes derived from stem cell lines derived from discarded IVF embryos would have no genetic parents! This paper defends this claim and investigates its ethical implications. I argue that there are reasons to think that the creation of such embryos might be morally superior to the existing alternatives in an important set of circumstances.
许多辅助生殖技术的进步都受到了指责，称它们将产生“没有父母”的孩子。在本文中，我将论证，虽然到目前为止，这些指责是错误的，但在某种程度上，对于那些即将出现的生殖技术所生育的孩子来说，这些指责是正确的。如果我们的亲生父母是那些从他们那里遗传了我们 50%基因的人，那么与任何其他生殖场景不同的是，那些由源自丢弃的体外受精胚胎的干细胞系衍生的配子受孕的孩子将没有亲生父母！本文捍卫了这一观点，并探讨了其伦理意义。我认为，在某些重要情况下，有理由认为，与现有替代方案相比，创造此类胚胎可能在道德上更具优势。
